Mummies
As Chile’s climate changes, the world’s oldest mummies are turning moldy
The oldest mummies in the world aren’t in Egypt, but in northern Chile where the Chinchorro people once lived. Their 7,000-year-old remains are now under threat from changing weather patterns wrought by climate change, as are cultural relics around the world.
European mummies found in China, and new discoveries on the origin of dogs
Archaeologists have found mummies of people of European descent who lived in a desert in Northwestern China nearly 4,000 years ago. Also this week, geneticists announced that dogs split from the wolves about 15,000 years ago in the Middle East.