The Egyptians may have the most famous mummies, but they're not the oldest. The Chinchorro people of Chile's Atacama Desert were the first to mummify their dead – 7,000 years ago. In Chile's ...

Related: Photos: Hundreds of mummies found in Peru Before farming took off, the ancient people along the coast of the Atacama Desert spent about 9,000 years hunting, fishing and gathering.

Back in 2003, a strange skeleton was discovered in a deserted Chilean town in the Atacama Desert. Featuring an elongated ... offering new insights into the enigmatic mummy. The new study ...

The Atacama Desert — the driest in the world — would ... it is hard not to spot evidence of the mummies. Cloth, rope, hair, tiny fragments of bones, and pieces of wood, an item that is nowhere ...

The Camarones River cuts through the Atacama Desert in Chile. This arid region is where the first Chinchorro mummies were unearthed in the early 20th century. Photograph by De Agostini ...

SANTIAGO, Chile – Chilean officials say some pre-Columbian mummies buried in the northern Atacama desert have been damaged by a magnitude-8.2 earthquake and hundreds of aftershocks that hit the ...

Nearly two decades ago, the rumors began: In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile ... the producers and offered to look for DNA in the mummy. The skeleton’s owner agreed to X-ray images as ...

Chile's Atacama Desert was once home to the Chincorro people ... put the Chincorro culture on display. Some mummies and other relics are safely ensconced in those climate-controlled exhibits ...

The Atacama desert plateau is one of the driest places in the world. Mummies have been found here that predate ancient Egypt’s by 2,000 years. Photograph by Naftali Hilger, laif/Redux Decay is a ...

Chile's Atacama Desert was once home to the Chincorro people ... put the Chincorro culture on display. Some mummies and other relics are safely ensconced in those climate-controlled exhibits ...

Chinchorro mummies resemble sculptures or effigies ... Anthony Cotsifas San Pedro de Atacama, the desert’s tourist hub, is an isolated hot spot of human hustle. Every evening I was there ...

But those mummies came from different locations ... of 194 adults buried between 2,800 and 1,400 years ago in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, 40 of which appeared to have been the victims ...