There's only so long the human body can last, and scientists think they've found the maximum age humans could theoretically ...
A stone wall discovered deep inside Theopetra Cave in central Greece may be the oldest surviving human-built structure ever ...
Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new research has found.
Previously, some of the oldest mummies on earth were known to be in South America and dated back to about 7,000 years ago Scientists revealed they have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies. A ...
The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...
When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...
Maria Branyas Morera was the oldest person in the world when she died. Scientists analysed her genes, metabolism and more. “We wanted to learn from her particular case to benefit other people,” says ...