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Showing posts with label mummies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mummies. Show all posts
Sunday, May 20, 2018

How did Ancient Egyptians mummify a body?

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History Extra Egypt’s undertakers employed different mummification methods at different times. Here are details of the classic method,...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Archaeologists Stumble Upon 10 Egyptian Late Period Rock-Hewn Tombs

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Ancient Origins An Egyptian mission from the Ministry of Antiquities recently came across 10 previously undiscovered rock-hewn tombs ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

The First Genome Data from Ancient Egyptian Mummies: Ancient Egyptians Were Most Closely Related to Ancient Populations from the Near East

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Ancient Origins An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute f...
Friday, December 16, 2016

Owner of Mummified Legs Likely to Be Nefertari, Favorite Queen of Ramses II

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Ancient Origins They are not very pretty to look at now, but a pair of mummified legs are now believed to have belonged to a much sough...
Friday, November 25, 2016

3,200-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Mummy Discovered in Great Shape in Luxor

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Ancient Origins A Spanish mission has just announced an exciting new discovery of a 3,200-year-old mummy in a highly decorated sarcoph...
Friday, November 4, 2016

10 things you (probably) didn't know about Ancient Egypt

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History Extra Fresco on the Tomb of Iti showing the transportation of wheat by donkey. Donkeys were more commonly used by the Anc...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

The Face of a Beautiful Egyptian Woman Brought to Life from 2,000-Year-Old Mummy

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Ancient Origins The face of a young Egyptian woman who lived at least 2,000-years-ago has been reconstructed from a 3D print out of her...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

CT Scans of Mummy of an Ancient Priest Reveal He Was Stricken with Modern Diseases

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Ancient Origins The mummy of an ancient Egyptian man from 2,200 years ago was recently scanned by researchers. The results proved that...
Sunday, April 3, 2016

Ramesses III was Murdered by Multiple Assailants Then Received Postmortem Cosmetic Surgery to Hide it

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Ancient Origins A theory about the assassination of Ramesses III has been confirmed by researchers at the University in Cairo. They say ...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

French Egyptologist Asserts that the Younger Lady is Really the Mummy of Nefertiti

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Ancient Origins French Egyptologist Marc Gabolde, specialist in the Eighteenth ...