News tagged with ancient egyptian mummy
Hospital tests reveal the secrets of an Egyptian mummy
An ancient Egyptian mummy has had quite an afterlife, traveling more than 6,000 miles, spending six decades in private hands, and finally, in 1989, finding a home at the World Heritage Museum (now the Spurlock ...
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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UK taxi driver becomes first mummy for 3,000 years
A former British taxi driver has become the first person in the world for 3,000 years to be mummified in the same way as the pharaohs.
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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Archeologists discover Egyptian mummies styled with fatty hair gel
(PhysOrg.com) -- While it has long been known that the ancient Egyptians prettied up those deemed worthy of mummification, not so clear was what was done for the hair. Now, archeologist s working out of the KNH Centre for ...
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Aug 23, 2011 |
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Mummies' false toes helped ancient Egyptians walk
Two artificial big toes – one found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy – may have been the world's earliest functional prosthetic body parts, says the scientist who tested replicas ...
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Feb 14, 2011 |
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History out from under wraps: Science Center's extensive 'Mummies' exhibit reveals a wealth of information
A well-dressed 18th-century miller from Hungary, a 6,500-year-old child found in Peru, a baby crocodile -- these aren't your mother's mummies. You can see all three of them, along with more than 40 others, at the world premiere ...
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Jul 06, 2010 |
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57 ancient tombs with mummies unearthed in Egypt
(AP) -- Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said Sunday.
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May 23, 2010 |
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Heart disease found in Egyptian mummies
Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, ...
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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