When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered a mysterious substance laid out along her neck like a piece of jewelry. It ...

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The mummies have returned. A museum exhibit on the Silk Road includes a pair of ancient mummies, now that a dispute with the Chinese government is settled.

Sept. 16 (UPI) --Scientists discovered what may be the world's oldest known mummies in China and Southeast Asia. The research posted in the PNAS journal examined 54 pre-Neolithic burials from 11 ...

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, where the oldest ones are about 4,500 years old. But researchers say they have found mummies that are much older, on the other side of the world. “We ...

“Regular cheese is soft. This is not. It has now become really dry, dense and hard dust,” said Fu Qiaomei, a paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the co-author of a study ...