Mummification is among the best-known religious practices of the ancient Egyptians, yet apart from a few textual descriptions and tomb paintings, very little is known about the facilities where this ...
The Chinchorro people of the Pacific coast turned the raw pain of loss into something enduring and visible, reshaping the ...
The Chinchorro began mummifying their dead well before the Egyptians immortalized the practice. However, the Chinchorro ...
The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...