Smoke-dried remains located in Asia may be globe's oldest mommies

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Much More from CBS News More from CBS News Updated on: September 16, 2025/ 8:24 AM EDT/ CBS/AP Scientists have discovered what's assumed to be the earliest recognized mummies in the world in southeastern Asia dating back up to 12,000 years. "This custom may have been understood among hunter-gatherer cultures throughout a vast region, for many millennia," they created in the study, Dating approaches used on the mommies could have been a lot more durable and it's not yet clear that mummies were regularly smoke-dried across all these locations in southeastern Asia, stated human development expert Rita Peyroteo Stjerna with Uppsala University in Sweden, that was not entailed with the study. © 2025 CBS Interactive Inc. © 2025 CBS Interactive Inc. Copyright © 2025 CBS Interactive Inc.