Archeology
Discover the oldest mammoth mummy
Found in permanently frozen land south of Siberia, the mammoth mummy of Khroma is an extremely rare historical specimen.
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Decipher the death of the oldest mummies in the world
Arsenic-contaminated water is the culprit that killed the ancient people in Chile, where the embalming technique was applied as early as human history.
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Secretly decode thousands of years of mummies
Research on the 5,300-year-old Iceman mummy gave the answer to mystery, why mummies can be intact over thousands of years.
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Find strange wrap in Egyptian mummies
The biggest surprise came from an autopsy of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy that scientists discovered a small envelope in the abdomen, believed to be a mummy of a bird.
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Discover animal mummies in Egypt
Wrapped in linen and reverently resting, animal mummies contain amazing mysteries about life and death in ancient Egypt.
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Detected 33 mummies 600 years old
Archaeologists have discovered 33 mummies of the Incas in northern Peru, believed to have been killed to sacrifice gods about 600 years ago.
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Break 53 tons of rocks to find beautiful mummies
Archaeologists discovered a series of ancient tombs that contained intact, still-decorated mummies.
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Puppy mummy in the crypt
A small package was found at the foot of an Egyptian mummy in a tomb carved with the phrase
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Close-up of famous European ice men
Scientists have just made a project to take 150,000 high-resolution photos of the Otzi tape.
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'Amulet' blue stone in Egyptian mummy
Ancient Egyptians believed that colors had sacred power, when many times discovered green stones were wrapped in mummies of children.
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Detecting 30 mummies in an ancient crypt
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 30 intact mummies in a limestone coffin, at a 4,300-year-old crypt, sinking deep underground 11m.
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Discover rare mummies with strange artifacts and tattoos
The male mummy discovered in the town of Rontoy in Peru has pieces of metal on his eyes - this is a sign of his social position. The mummy was removed from the cloth in…
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Detecting Greek mummies in coffins with lead
The mummy of a middle-aged woman dating from ancient Greece was discovered in a coffin by lead in another stone casket. The first clear information is the Greek mummy fr…
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Move 3 Egyptian mummies to check DNA
The Egyptian government recently announced that three mummies have been transferred from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo for extensive r…
Archeology
Detecting salt mummies from 1,800 years ago
During the period of the Roman Empire, only after the collapse of ancient Persia (present-day Iran), a salt mine worker in northwestern Iran was killed after a catastrop…