Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Taiwan-based rubber company intends to buy the former Sumitomo Rubber plant in Tonawanda that closed last year, it was announced on Tuesday. Hwa Fong Rubber, a tire-making ...

Hunter-gatherers across southern China and Southeast Asia were preserving human remains thousands of years earlier than better-known examples of mummification from ancient Egypt, according to an ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and beyond as far back as 12,000 years ago, my colleagues and I report in new ...

Archaeologists working in southeast Asia have long been puzzled by pre-farming burials dating from about 12,000 to 4,000 years ago. Unlike later Neolithic graves, where people were typically laid flat ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...