Chinchorro mummification may have originated as a form of art therapy, study suggests

In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of ...
Ancient Origins

Ancient Art Therapy? Chinchorro Mummification as Emotional Healing

The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...
Archaeology

Mummification Workshop

Mummification is among the best-known religious practices of the ancient Egyptians, yet apart from a few textual descriptions and tomb paintings, very little is known about the facilities where this ...
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7,000-year-old Chinchorro mummies represent a culture that turned grief into art

The Chinchorro began mummifying their dead well before the Egyptians immortalized the practice. However, the Chinchorro ...