High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet above the ground. Long treated as archaeological curiosities, these ...

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For centuries, travelers in southern China and Thailand have looked up and seen wooden coffins lodged high in cliffs instead of buried in the ground. Now a team of geneticists has shown that a small ...

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The ancient funeral tradition of “hanging coffins” in southern China was carried out by ancestors of a minority ethnic group still living in the region today, a new study has found. The report ...

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DNA Study Identifies the People Behind China’s Ancient Hanging Coffins — And Their Descendants Remain in the Region - © Xie Peixia/China Folklore Photography ...