A 14,000-Year-Old Arm Bone Appeared in Vietnam. Smoked mummies found in Southeast Asia are thousands of years older th

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A 14,000-Year-Old Arm Bone Appeared in Vietnam. It Could Be the Oldest Mummy Ever Found.

Smoked mummies found in Southeast Asia are thousands of years older than the embalmed pharaohs of Egypt.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a67133981/oldest-mummy-ever-found/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

By Elizabeth RaynePublished: Sep 19, 2025 4:00 PM EDT
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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 audiences, the mummification practices of this ancient people involved fire and smoke to dry out the corpses.
Some of the mummified bones had mysterious cuts, which may have been an attempt to expedite the drying process.

For modern day people, mummies have become a symbol of ancient Egypt, as much as the Sphinx, the pyramids, and the iconic gold death mask of King Tutankhamun. Their quest for eternal life would immortalize the ancient Egyptians as some of the greatest embalmers in the ancient world. What they likely never knew was that, ten thousand years before the emergence of the Old Kingdom, some pre-Neolithic peoples of East and Southeast Asia had found a different way to mummify their dead. ..................

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