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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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Forget about the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx: I spent a month in Egypt, and the most spectacular site I visited was the ancient city of Thebes
Luxor is often called the world's "largest open-air museum." The city sits on what was once the anc…
Harrison Jacobs
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18 ancient Egyptian human skulls are being auctioned for $250 each, in a grim sale of colonial spoils
Auctoneers are selling 18 ancient Egyptian skulls from the famed Pitt Rivers collections for $250 e…
Mia Jankowicz
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Napoleon stranded a bunch of scientists in Egypt and now we have modern archaeology
Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to use Egypt's history for France's benefit. He sent savants to record it…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny McGrath
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7 scientific breakthroughs that resulted from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt
Over 150 scientists went with Napoleon Bonaparte when he invaded Egypt. They mapped pyramids, disse…
Jenny McGrath
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Talking to kids about menopause could help break down one of the biggest taboos in women's health
As women talk more openly about periods, postpartum, and general health, it's time for them to also…
Kelly Burch
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged Jupiter's rings and moons, in white-hot infrared
NASA's new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Archaeologists discovered 30 ancient sarcophagi in Egypt with perfectly preserved mummies inside. Photos show the biggest coffin find in a century.
A dig team stumbled upon the sarcophagi in the Asasif necropolis of the ancient town of Thebes, the…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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In a single month, the James Webb Space Telescope has seen the oldest galaxies, messy cosmic collisions, and a hot gas planet's atmosphere
In the month since the space telescope released its first batch of images, it's deluged astronomers…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Archaeologists just uncovered 20 ancient coffins in Egypt with their original colors and carvings intact
The sarcophagi were unearthed in the Asasif Necropolis of the ancient town of West Thebes, on the w…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Mumbai COVID-19 cases cross 10,000-mark; death toll 412
"CCC2s, where asymptomatic positive cases from highlydense slum pockets will be kept, are being dev…
PTI
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Zendaya wore all Black designers from head to toe for her InStyle cover — a first in the magazine's history
Zendaya's groundbreaking shoot for InStyle magazine also featured a Black stylist, Black photograph…
Anneta Konstantinides
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At least 18 Americans who've come down with the coronavirus are linked to an Egyptian cruise ship quarantined in the Nile River
A number of other cases in the US are linked to unspecified Egyptian cruises. Among 21 Iowans who t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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This hallucinogenic honey is so prized that hunters scale cliffs and confront swarms of bees to get it
But the traditional honey hunts, which are conducted in an environmentally sustainable way, may not…