Source: China – South China Morning PostHunter-gatherers across southern China and Southeast Asia were preserving human remains thousands of years earlier than better-known examples of mummification from ancient Egypt, according to an international team of archaeologists.
In a study published on Monday by the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers said that large-scale mummification of human remains was practised in the region as early as 12,000 years ago.
An investigation of 54 pre-Neolithic…Read More