How old is the oldest mummy found to-date? When and where was it found?
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Discovered on the coastal area of the Atacama desert in northern Chile and southern Peru, the world's oldest mummies were created by small fishing communities known as the Chinchorro. Although regarded as primitive in the absence of farming, pottery, textiles and literacy, their complex mummification techniques actually reveal a highly sophisticated culture. http://tinyurl.com/yvo8th edit============================== From c.6000 BC, the Chinchorro began to 'rebuild' their dead, with bodies carefully defleshed and the skin, brain and internal organs removed. The bones were dried with hot ashes before the whole lot was then reassembled using twigs for reinforcement bound tightly with reeds. Over this framework the skin was reapplied, and supplemented where needed with sea lion or pelican skin. A thick layer of ash paste was applied over the body and a stylised clay mask used to cover the face, painted with either black manganese or red ochre to give the mummies a rather clone-like, uniform appearance.
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Joan Rivers is in her 70's, but her originality is unknown to any human.
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"The oldest mummified head is Chulina, see http://www.archaeometry.org/chulina.htm, 6000 year old, found in 1936 and AMS dated in Zürich in 2005." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy
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