World's oldest mummies were 'smoked dried like BBQ brisket' in history changing discovery

The world's oldest mummies have been discovered in burial sites in southern China and southeast Asia, boffins have claimed in a newly published and potentially ground-breaking study The 'smoked' mummies were found in Southeartern Asia

Boffins have uncovered the world's oldest mummies and found they were preserved with unusual method – smoking them like BBQ brisket. A study released on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analysed 54 pre-Neolithic burials from 11 archaeological locations throughout Southeastern Asia.

Most of the specimens originated from Vietnam and China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. "We found that in southern China and Southeast Asia, there were many archaeological sites that contain human burials that are between four an