7,000-year-old Chinchorro mummies are the world’s oldest
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.
Simon Fraser University scientists say their research on the latest fossil find near Princeton, BC is raising questions about how the dispersal of animals and plants occurred across the Northern…