<P> The Chinchorro mummies are mummified remains of individuals from the South American Chinchorro culture , found in what is now northern Chile . They are the oldest examples of artificially mummified human remains , having been buried up to two thousand years before the Egyptian mummies . While the earliest mummy that has been found in Egypt dated around 3000 BC , the oldest anthropogenically modified Chinchorro mummy dates from around 5050 BC . </P>
<P> The Chinchorro mummies are mummified remains of individuals from the South American Chinchorro culture , found in what is now northern Chile . They are the oldest examples of artificially mummified human remains , having been buried up to two thousand years before the Egyptian mummies . While the earliest mummy that has been found in Egypt dated around 3000 BC , the oldest anthropogenically modified Chinchorro mummy dates from around 5050 BC . </P>
when did cultures in peru begin the practice of mummification
when did cultures in peru begin the practice of mummification
around 5050 BC
around 5050 BC