Mummification is the process of preserving the body after death by deliberately drying or embalming flesh. A recent discovery made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8,000 years ago found that mummification of the dead probably seemed to be more common in prehistory than previously known.
No country is more associated with mummies and mummification that Egypt, with Peru or Chile coming in a distant second. Because of that, it has been assumed that Egyptians practiced this preservation of the dead before any other culture. The evidence supported this … until now. Archaeologists have found what appear to be mummified human