Faces of ancient mummies, hidden for centuries, finally revealed through digital reconstructions

Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. digitally removed face masks from ancient Colombian mummies ...

Smoke-dried human remains found in Asia may be world's oldest known mummies, researchers say

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

Scientists say they've found the world's oldest mummies, and they're far from Egypt

Human remains found in tightly crouched postures at pre-Neolithic burial sites in China and Southeast Asia appear to have ...

The World’s Oldest Mummies Have Been Found in an Unexpected Part of the World

But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study suggests that mummification dates back much earlier, to some of the first human ...
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‘Alien mummies’ discovered in Peru found to have ‘non-human fingerprints’

The discovery of suspected “alien mummies” in Peru has generated fresh excitement after a lawyer declared that their fingerprints are “not human”. Two of the humanoid figures were unveiled to the ...

Scientists say they’ve discovered the oldest mummies ever found

Researchers consider the discovered remains to be mummies because they were deliberately mummified through smoke-drying, even ...
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Colombian mummies’ faces revealed for first time after removing death masks

Scientists in a recent breakthrough have successfully unveiled the faces of centuries-old mummies from the Andes of Colombia ...
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Death Masks of Four Colombian Mummies Digitally Removed, Revealing Faces for First Time

Researchers digitally removed death masks from centuries-old Colombian mummies, revealing reconstructed faces for the first time.
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These Colombian Mummies Were Buried with Death Masks Fused to Their Faces. Now, Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Their Faces After 500 years

Centuries-old mummies are unmasked with 3D scans, revealing faces hidden for hundreds of years.