New research shows a tradition of smoke-drying human remains persisted for thousands of years across southern Asia and beyond – even into the modern day.
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Pigs, specifically those weighing around 60kg, are useful in human decomposition studies.
Several studies have upended what we thought we knew about mummification using scientific dating techniques to reveal some fascinating – and surprising – insights.
The first mummy was wrapped up about 7,000 years ago, and it was from South America.
A body in an Italian museum reveals that Egyptians living 1,500 or more years before the Pharaohs already knew how to preserve bodies.
Modern techniques such as CT scanning and ancient DNA analysis have allowed scientists to discover a great deal about a mummy found in a shallow grave in Botswana.
Turns out the Egyptians weren’t the only ones who mummified their dead.
For the first time, scientific evidence has shown that prehistoric Egyptians experimented with techniques to preserve bodies around 4000BC, some 1,500 years before artificial mummification was believed…
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Research Fellow in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Wellcome Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Natural History Museum
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Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich
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Honorary Research Fellow in Archaeology, The University of Queensland
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Professor; Head of the School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Biomedical Egyptology, University of Manchester
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Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University