What is the Oldest Mummy in the World?

The envelope please – and the Oldest Mummy in the World is…

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**CREDITS**

Mortician: Caitlin Doughty
Producer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1)
Editor & Graphics: Landis Blair (@landisblair)

This video could not have been possible without the research and scholarship by Professor Bernardo T. Arriaza.

“Making the Dead Beautiful: Mummies as Art”
https://archive.archaeology.org/onlin...

Beyond Death: The Chinchorro Mummies of Ancient Chile
Arriaza, Bernardo T.
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995

**SELECTED ADDITIONAL READING**

“Is This a Photograph of a Mummified Dinosaur?”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mum...

“The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ma...

“Mummy Yields Earliest Known Egyptian Embalming Recipe”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...

“Mummies Beyond the Grave”
Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Fall 2016. Vol. 58, No. 2.

“Egyptian Mummies”
https://www.si.edu/spotlight/ancient-...

“Are the world’s oldest mummies being damaged by a changing climate?”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...

“Why the South American Chinchorro People Made the First Mummies”
https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-08-1...

“What Have the World’s Oldest Mummies Kept Under Wraps?”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...

“Scientists reveal 10,000-year-old mummy is Native American ancestor”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...

“North America’s Oldest Mummy Returned to U.S. Tribe after Genome Sequencing”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...

“Spirit Cave remains returned to Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe”
https://www.firstnationsfocus.com/fea...

“North America’s oldest mummy returned to US tribe after genome sequencing”
https://www.nature.com/news/north-ame...