The first mummies in the world were created by the Chinchorro people along the coast of what is today northern Chile. In 2021 ...

For thousands of years, the mummies lay buried beneath the sands of the Atacama Desert, a volcanically active region along the northern Chilean coast with virtually no rainfall. When the first ...

The Chinchorro are the very first people that inhabited the Atacama desert in Chile, the driest desert on Earth. Their 5,000-year-old mummies, dating thousands of years before the Egyptians ...