The oldest known mummies have been found — in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asians created the oldest known human mummies roughly 7,000 years before Egyptian mummies debuted, researchers say. From around 12,000 to 4,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers across southern China, Southeast Asia and islands to the south and east bound the dead in crouched postures. They then slowly dried the bodies over smoky, low-temperature fires for several…

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