News tagged with egyptian mummy

Forensic sleuth probes fate of royal lovers and lion hearts

The French media like to call him the "Indiana Jones of the graveyards", but perhaps a better tag would be the Sherlock Holmes of forensic science.

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created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Robotic cats, a kitten mummy and a major UK vet gathering

A possible new feline disease identified by veterinarians in Scotland leaves cats walking like robots. Meanwhile thousands of years and miles apart, new research sheds light on cats bred to become mummies in Egyptian antiquity. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Statue, chapels and animal mummies found in Egypt

A wooden statue of a king, a private offering chapel, a monumental building and remains of over 80 animal mummies found by a University of Toronto-led team in Abydos, Egypt reveal intriguing information about ...

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created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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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created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

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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created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 11

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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created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

CT scans of Egyptian mummy help Vt. solve crimes

A childhood fascination with archaeology and a chance encounter with a 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy are helping Vermont doctors and law enforcement officials find truth in some of the most challenging of ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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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created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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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created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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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created May 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 2

Hunt for bird mummy in Conn. comes up empty

(AP) -- Researchers who examined an Egyptian mummy with the latest imaging technology found no evidence that a packet inside her was an offering to the gods of the ancient world.

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created Jan 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mummy's tooth yields DNA

(PhysOrg.com) -- A four thousand year old Egyptian mummy's tooth has yielded its DNA to probing scientists.

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created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 1 weblog

Stanford scientists scan 2,500-year-old mummy

(AP) -- Scientists in California are using computer scans to help unwrap the mysteries of a more than 2,500-year-old mummy.

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created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0