These Are the World’s Oldest Mummies | NOVA | PBS

They're older than King Tut, Ötzi the Iceman, and even the ones found in the Atacama Desert. They might have been alive at the same time as woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats.

Across southeastern Asia, researchers have identified dozens of mummies that are between 4,000 and 11,00 years old. After scanning the bones with invisible wavelengths of light, they found that almost all the bodies have been exposed to heat, preserved for millennia by smoke from a fire.

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