The first mummies in the world were created by the Chinchorro people along the coast of what is today northern Chile. In 2021 ...

Last week (March 22), researchers reported the sequenced genome of a mummified fetus found in 2003 near Chile’s Atacama desert in Genome Research. Now, some Chilean scientists are condemning the study ...

Dead for 500 years, this Inca sacrificial mummy found on Chile's El Plomo Peak has opened the door to further inquiry into the strange and mysterious ritual life of the Inca. There may be hundreds ...

While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from ... who lived on the north coast of what is now Chile, were embalming their dead as early as 5000 B.C. Chinchoros ...

Figure 1: Map of northern Chile, showing locations of study fields from which mummy bones and blood samples of contemporary Andean people were collected (boxed area, right, enlarged at left).

(page 1428, this issue) analyzed DNA isolated from bone marrow of mummies excavated from the Atacama desert in north Chile. People buried in cemeteries of this region were naturally mummified by ...