Showing posts with label mummies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mummies. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Exposed

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A 7-member team attempted to summit Mexico's highest mountain, Pico de Orizaba, In 1959, but they were overtaken by an avalanche. Four...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Chinchorro change

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Dating back 7,000 years – earlier than the Egyptians, the oldest mummies in the world are those of the Chinchorro , who lived along the co...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Buddha body

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Now on temporary display at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest is a Buddha statue recently found to contain the mummified ...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Gallagh guy

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The male bog body of a 20-year-old known as Gallagh Man, who was killed in Iron Age between 470 and 120 B.C.E., is housed at the National...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Mummified monk

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The mummy of a monk seated in a lotus position and shrouded in the skin of a cow, horse, or camel was discovered on January 27th at an u...
Sunday, January 4, 2015

Minimummy

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After 30 years of excavating a 300-acre Roman Era cemetery in Egypt, a team from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, U.S., has uncove...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Minirdis' makeover

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One of 30 ancient Egyptian mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum is being prepared for travel. Minirdis , the 14-year-old son of a priest who...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Worked turf

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My friend Cathy surprised me the other day with more " show and tell " about Ireland. She recently came into possession of the 2...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Parlor props

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" The hairs went up on the back of my neck when I walked into the drawing room. It stood out like a sore thumb ," says Mark Sta...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Unmasked

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Researcher Marleen De Meyer of the University of Leuven in Belgium was excavating Old Kingdom cave graves in Dayr al-Barsha, Egypt, when...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Egyptian extensions

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In the ancient city once established as the capital of Egypt by the pharaoh Akhenaten during his reign ca. 1353-1335 B.C.E., archaeologis...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

Egyptian embalmers

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Researchers from the Universities of York, Macquarie, and Oxford have just overturned the accepted timeline of ancient Egyptian embalming ...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Bog voyage

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There is a breakthrough about bog bodies to report! Researcher Karin Margarita Frei of the National Museum of Denmark has disproven t...
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Friday, July 11, 2014

Preserved in what is now Peru

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An international team of archaeologists led by Józef Szykulski of the University of Wrocław, in Poland, have discovered 150 mummies in th...
Friday, June 27, 2014

St. Bees IDs

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A new study confirms the identity of the body buried with the St. Bees Man , who is known for being one of the most well-preserved archaeo...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Reverse mummification

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Forensic odontologist Alejandro Hernández Cárdenas of the Ciudad Juárez Forensic Science Laboratory has made a name for himself by rehydra...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Mummy rubble

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Bits and pieces of some 50 royal mummies dating from the reigns of the pharaohs Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III in the 14th c. B.C.E. have t...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Copper-plated mummies

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In a burial ritual unknown to experts, several bodies from a medieval necropolis near the Arctic Circle in Siberia were found shrouded in...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Overlooked ink

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It wasn't until the staff of the British Museum reexamined 8 of the mummies in their collection for an upcoming exhibition that they ...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

Misidentified mummy

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A 500-year-old mummy housed in the Bavarian State Archaeological Collection is revealing some more of her secrets. Although no written rec...