What is the Oldest Mummy in the World?

The envelope please – and the Oldest Mummy in the World is… Thank you Patron deathlings, who make this all possible. http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath The Co-op Funeral Home of People’s Memorial https://funerals.coop/ Find our podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2yK6c6G Find our podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Find our podcast on Google Play: https://bit.ly/2AdEvoj My two books!: http://www.caitlindoughty.com ***WHERE ELSE YOU CAN FIND ME*** Website: http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thegooddeath Facebook: http://ow.ly/Zz8PW Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath ***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/online/features/chinchorro/ 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/mummified-dinosaur/ “The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada” https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/ “Mummy Yields Earliest Known Egyptian Embalming Recipe” https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/08/news-egyptian-prehistoric-mummy-embalming-recipe/ “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-egypt/mummies “Are the world’s oldest mummies being damaged by a changing climate?” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/14/chinchorro-mummies-chile-climate-change “Why the South American Chinchorro People Made the First Mummies” https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-08-13/why-south-american-chinchorro-people-made-first-mummies “What Have the World’s Oldest Mummies Kept Under Wraps?” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-oldest-mummies-get-ct-scan-180961578/ “Scientists reveal 10,000-year-old mummy is Native American ancestor” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/08/scientists-prove-10000-year-old-mummy-is-native-american-ancestor “North America’s Oldest Mummy Returned to U.S. Tribe after Genome Sequencing” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/north-america-rsquo-s-oldest-mummy-returned-to-u-s-tribe-after-genome-sequencing/ “Spirit Cave remains returned to Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe” https://www.firstnationsfocus.com/features/spirit-cave-remains-returned-to-fallon-paiute-shoshone-tribe/ “North America’s oldest mummy returned to US tribe after genome sequencing” https://www.nature.com/news/north-america-s-oldest-mummy-returned-to-us-tribe-after-genome-sequencing-1.21108