The Society Who Mummified Their Dead 2000 Years Before Egypt | Oldest Mummies | Timeline Classics

The Atacama Desert, Northern Chile, known as the driest place on Earth, houses the oldest mummies in the world, dating back almost 9,000 years. The Chinchorro people, stone age inhabitants of the Atacama coast, were adept mummy makers, mummifying bodies of all ages, displaying them before burial, and possibly considering them still ’alive’ in a sense. Timeline Classics is a curated home for the very best of Timeline’s extensive catalog of history documentaries. From legendary multi-part series featuring world-famous historians to our personally picked hidden gems, every week we’ll be selecting some of our favorite documentaries for you to discover - all in one place. Timeline Classics is in partnership with the History Hit network.