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Can ancient germs from dug-up Egyptian mummies trigger a plague or pandemic today?
Do ancient Egyptian mummies harbour deadly plagues ready to wreak havoc in the modern world? Here's…
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An ancient Egyptian book of spells to guide the dead in the afterlife was found buried with mummies
The scroll, which was revealed as part of a presentation of archaeological finds from the Tuna al-G…
Marianne Guenot
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Archaeologists have discovered full-color portraits of Egyptian mummies in ancient Philadelphia
The artwork discovered in the ruins of Philadelphia offers clues to the lives of the communities th…
Bethany Dawson
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Ancient Egyptian mummies were found with gold tongues meant to help them talk with the god of the underworld
The gold-plated tongues replaced the deceased's real tongues during the embalming process. It is th…
Marianne Guenot
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11 ways new technology changed the way we think about Ancient Egyptian mummies
CT scanning changed the way Egyptologists see mummified remains.S. Saleem and Z. Hawass; A. Leydo/W…
Marianne Guenot
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A schoolboy digging potatoes in Scotland found an ancient Egyptian statue. Nobody knows how it got there.
A Scottish schoolboy initially mistook an ancient Egyptian sculpture for a potato. His find would l…
Mia Jankowicz
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Scientists looking at the first pregnant Egyptian mummy think they figured out why none were ever found before
A bizarre process after death might be to blame that makes it impossible to tell whether mummified …
Marianne Guenot
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Ancient Egyptian mummies with gold tongues were discovered inside a tomb dating back 2,500 years
Archeologists discovered a man and woman's mummified remains in a tomb at El Bahnasa, Egypt, buried…
Alia Shoaib
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High-tech scanners 'unwrapped' a mummified Egyptian pharaoh, revealing a seemingly healthy 35-year-old with no clues for how he died
Amenhotep I had been so well preserved that scientists did not want to open his casing. Scanners ga…
Marianne Guenot
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A decapitated Egyptian mummy head discovered in an attic belonged to woman who lived 2,000 years ago, a CT scan revealed
The ancient Egyptian mummy head, found in an attic in Kent, England, is believed to have been broug…
Alia Shoaib
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Scans revealed an Egyptian mummy was actually a pregnant woman, not a male priest
It is the first known case of embalmed pregnancy, according to the Warsaw Mummy Project who led the…
Marianne Guenot
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9 things you think you know about ancient Egyptians that are actually wrong
Oft-repeated claims about ancient Egypt, such as the power of Cleopatra's beauty and the use of boo…
Marianne Guenot
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Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian mummy buried with a golden tongue
In a temple outside Alexandria, Egypt, diggers uncovered 16 burial shafts that contained 2,000-year…
Aylin Woodward
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Archaeologists unearthed 160 sarcophagi from an ancient Egyptian necropolis. Some of the tombs were inscribed with mummy curses.
Saqqara, an ancient Egyptian city of the dead, has yielded countless mummies. The walls of some tom…
Aylin Woodward
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Egyptian archaeologists unearthed a 4,200-year-old funerary temple for a queen and 50 coffins in an ancient city of the dead
Egyptians buried their dead at Saqqara for millennia. Archaeologists have found the funerary temple…
Aylin Woodward
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Photos show 10 mummified crocodiles found in an Egyptian tomb, likely after being sacrificed
The crocodiles were likely sacrificed to reach Sobek, the god of fertility, an archaeologist told I…
Marianne Guenot
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Scientists digitally unwrapped a mummified cat, cobra, and kestrel to see how ancient Egyptians ritually killed animals
But a study published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports reveals a new technique scientists…
Aylin Woodward
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Archaeologists unearthed 27 sarcophagi in an ancient Egyptian city of the dead. They've been sealed for more than 2,500 years.
It happened in two parts: In early September, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced…
Aylin Woodward
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A 2,000-year-old mummy was found dumped in the trash in Yemen with its insides ripped out
Tomb robbers and antiquities traffickers have been blamed for exhuming the corpse, which was found …