Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is notorious for killing and preserving dead animals. If you died in its waters, its high levels of sodium carbonate would mummify your body. But instead of taking a ...

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OKC Thunder's Jalen Williams is playing through a wrist injury that has limited his range of motion. The injury has impacted his shooting, resulting in career-low percentages from the field and from 3 ...

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BANGKOK — Some ancient societies in China and Southeast Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new ...

The intact nature of the skeletons suggested there was no attempt to cremate the bodies. Some ancient societies in China and southeast Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively ...

Study: Societies in China mummified bodies thousands of years before Egyptian counterparts A reporter films painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of ...

While the bandage-bound bodies of ancient Egypt date back perhaps as far as 4,500 years ago, the oldest previously known examples of mummification are from ancient Chilean societies. There, the dry ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...