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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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12 recent, spooky discoveries about ancient death rituals, from vampire burials to vanishing mummy pregnancies
Archeologists have made some surprising discoveries based on these human remains.A. Leydo/Warsaw Mu…
Marianne Guenot
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Biologists reconstruct ancient genome of E. coli bacteria from the gallstone of a 16th century mummy
Researchers analyzed the mummified remains of an Italian nobleman who died in 1586, and whose well-…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Biologists reconstruct ancient genome of E. coli bacteria from the gallstone of a 16th century mummy
Researchers analyzed the mummified remains of an Italian nobleman who died in 1586, and whose well-…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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A child mummy from Egypt is the first found with a dressed wound, offering a rare glimpse into ancient medicine
The bandage was found on the body of a young girl who died in the 1st to 2nd century AD, a new stud…
Marianne Guenot
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Largest-ever stash of mummy-embalming tools found in Egypt, may have been for lavish funeral 2,600 years ago
The discovery in Absuir, Egypt, is vast in its scale and could unpick some of the many mysteries of…
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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3D technology uncovers the causes of death of 3 ancient South American mummies — and it isn't pretty
The technology pushes forward the idea that more South American mummies may have experienced violen…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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A mummy discovered in a vast burial ground of Egypt's pharaohs could change how ancient history is understood
Analysis of the mummy of a nobleman from the Age of the Pyramids suggests that expensive resins and…
Alia Shoaib
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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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Peruvian workers find 8 mummies buried on a road leading to the country's only nuclear power plant
Surrounded by chicken restaurants and near the road leading to Peru's sole nuclear power station, t…
Sebastian Cahill
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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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Researchers reconstruct the face of a teenage mummy believed to have been sacrificed in an Inca ritual more than 500 years ago
Since her discovery in 1995 atop the Ampato volcano, she has been granted nicknames, including The …
Erin Snodgrass
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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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More than 100 coffins, most containing mummies, found at an ancient burial site from the age of the pharaohs
The sealed sarcophagi and 40 gilded artifacts, buried 2,500 years ago, were unearthed at the necrop…
Naina Bhardwaj
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Archeologists unearthed a 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru with a luscious head of long brown hair still intact
The ancient remains were discovered in a ceremonial grave at a site in Lima, the lead archeologist …
Erin Snodgrass
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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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22 ancient Pharaoh mummies encased in glass pods and riding gold war chariots paraded through Egypt's capital in a spectacular procession
Each mummy was carried in a glass capsule with shock-absorbers so that the ancient royals didn't ge…