When Ulla Lohmann first met the Anga tribe in Papua New Guinea in 2003, the tribe's elders told her to leave. To even get there required a full day's drive, followed by a three-hour hike into the ...

[Read the full story on Moimango and the smoked mummies of Papua New Guinea] (Photo credit: Reproduced with permission from The Anatomical Record 298(6), June 2015: Special Issue The Anatomy of ...

Ulla Lohmann, a photojournalist who had worked in Papua New Guinea, told him Gemtasu wanted to restore his father’s mummified corpse and rekindle interest in traditional mummification processes. At ...

Such mummification is actually quite rare across ... The practice is typically associated with the Anga language group in Papua New Guinea and likely spread eastwards to the Dani.

One of the more unusual forms of mummification is practiced by the Anka people of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Anka are a small statured group of people previously considered to be very violent ...

(Watch how it's done in "Lost Mummies of Papua New Guinea" on the National Geographic Channel.) Bodies are brought down from the shrine for celebrations, and loved ones visit the mummies to ...

In one Aleutian cave, archaeologists found more than 50 mummies dating back 250 years. In Papua New Guinea, embalmers smoke-cured the dead, covered them in a protective layer of clay and propped ...

There are also studies detailing the mummies of Papua New Guinea and Peru. Researchers discussed how studying the conditions and ailments of mummies could prove a boon to modern medicine ...

High in the cliffs surrounding the Koke people of Papua New Guinea are galleries of their ancestors. Hung in chairs, overlooking the village. Mummies, preserved for the living to visit and celebrate.

Such mummification is actually quite rare across ... The practice is typically associated with the Anga language group in Papua New Guinea and likely spread eastwards to the Dani.