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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, someone had discovered a tiny mummified alien. China Fires F-16 Warning at US Ally Bartolo Colon Asked Perfect ...

A photograph authentically shows a corpse that had been preserved in Chile’s Atacama Desert since 5020 B.C.E. Remnants of hair, skin and clothing were still intact at the time the photo was taken.

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 ...

This Spanish businessman and researcher who now owns the eerie, but tiny, skeletal mummy dropped his new ... 3,225-feet above sea level in the arid Atacama Desert. But seven experts in infant ...