While mummified cats are common in the archaeological record — the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, and kept them as pets that were later mummified and entombed with their owners — mummified lions are far rarer.
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Mummified wildcatsThe lion cubs were only eight months old when they were mummified and buried in the Saqqara necropolis.
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The finding also included 75 decorated wooden and bronze cat statues, mummified birds, crocodiles, cats, and cobras, as well as a mammoth mummified scarab beetle.
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The team discovered three statues of crocodiles with the remains of small mummified crocodiles inside, mummies of cobras and birds, as well as "meticulously mummified" scarab beetles.
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Why the Egyptians mummified animalsAncient Egyptians mummified and buried millions of animals, often treating creatures like hawks, cats, and crocs with the same reverence that they would a human corpse.
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Mike, in his introductory package, looks like a mummified cloud.
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He then hid her mummified body in a bedroom closet.
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Mummified bat corpses in the alley behind the local church?
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After death, these were mummified and buried with great pomp.
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Mummified, she'd then been sold to an American sea captain.
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Many of the bodies laid to rest there have mummified.
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And sometimes you find frog bones inside your extinct mummified salamander.
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The researchers scanned a mummified human right hand from ancient Egypt.
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Once it is completely dry, the mummified meat will not decay.
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The bundles of mummified extended families would be placed in pits together.
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Forty five of the bodies were naturally mummified, with still-recognizable faces.
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The 50 mummified animals recovered from the tomb included mice and falcons.
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Hundreds of mummified penguin carcasses scattered across the study site in East Antarctica.
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Definitely not a bird: Micro-CT scan shows the mummified stillborn human baby.
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Literal tons of mummified feline remains have been discovered in past Egyptian excavations.
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Now its mummified remains have emerged from an oil sands mine in Canada.
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Mummified bodies are rare, but here, too, an occasional cancer has been found.
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Crocodiles, cobras, and scarabsThe archaeologists&apos recent findings include other mummified animals too.
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This mummified, severed head was recovered from an ancient Egyptian tomb in 22016.
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Eagles, falcons, ibex, cats and mice were all found mummified in the tomb.
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I assisted this mistress who had a client who wanted to be mummified.
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Visitors inside were startled to instead witness a gnarled, mummified half-fish, half-monkey.
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When the trehalose crystalizes, the tardigrade becomes mummified in a glass suit of armor.
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The damage endured by the mummified head made it even more difficult to analyze.
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When the trehalose crystallizes, the tardigrade becomes mummified in a glass suit of armor.
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The skin near the back was also mummified and embedded with five vertebrae pieces.
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The team were able to sequence the complete mitochondrial genomes of 14 mummified birds.
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Resistance has also been identified in mummified human remains dating to the 11th century.
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Preserved by dry desert conditions, "Ata," as the mummified skeleton is called, is undeniably weird.
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The wilderness hut of Jason Voorhees, where he stored the mummified head of his mother.
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At the risk of seeming anticlimactic: The Thing is a mummified mother and her child.
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Park guests can treat themselves to a mummified donut with peanut butter and jelly filling.
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DeathIsntTheEnd sells skulls and everything from a mummified shark's head to a gator skin bag.
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But many chicken bones go to landfills, where they become mummified as much as fossilized.
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Remember, these operators are the mummified remains of the same people who built the pyramids.
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They include a male steppe bison, a woolly rhinoceros, a mummified pony and several mammoths.
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Many were embalmed but some were naturally mummified by the dry conditions of the basilica.
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They thought perhaps the hepatitis B virus caused the dots on the child's mummified face.
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The outcome: They found her mummified body that had been lying there for 35 years.
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Ancient Egyptians often mummified the remains of these animals, placing them in graves as funeral offerings.
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Verdict: There are few things less zen than holding onto an illegally obtained mummified Buddhist monk.
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His mummified body has since become the oldest existing example of tattoo art on the planet.
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This intricately wrapped mummified baby crocodile was buried as an offering in an ancient Egyptian tomb.
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In addition to the cat remains, archeologists also found mummified scarab beetles in a decorative box.
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They found a partially mummified man who they thought was between 1,500 and 2,20143 years old.
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The bodies were mummified and wrapped in a blanket, and the box was sealed pretty well.
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They lived in the mountain caves, wore goatskins and mummified their dead in the Egyptian fashion.
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She pointed to a mummified ibis, a bird associated with Thoth, god of magic and wisdom.
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Related: CT Scans Reveal the Youngest Mummified Fetus Ever Found | Conservation Lab Painting Cover-Ups, Exposed!
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The generals' reluctance to dismantle the postwar system mummified Nigeria, ushering in a kind of gerontocracy.
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Dozens of other societies in the region of what is now Peru also mummified their dead.
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They take CT scans of mummified fetuses, expose art historical cover-ups, and resurrect dead languages.
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A mummified specimen from Chile's Atacama region prompted speculation for a decade about the find's peculiar skull.
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Australian officials discovered a mummified body inside a home where a man passed away a year ago.
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Such finds are rare, as only a half dozen mummified Egyptian stillborn babies are known to exist.
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Mummified cats inside a tomb, at an ancient necropolis near Egypt's famed pyramids in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt.
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Not so: a recent CT scan of the mummified bundle exposed the tiny bones of a fetus.
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Torn nylon stockings are stretched across the figure, as though it's being mummified while still partially alive.
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By 50 years in, your tissues will have liquefied and disappeared, leaving behind mummified skin and tendons.
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The visceral experience prompts many to donate their bodies for scientific purposes after entering the mummified museum.
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Other sections of the crypt were also desecrated and vandalized, with a nun's mummified body badly damaged.
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Mummified remains of people, including children, have been found on the slopes of mountains in the Andes.
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They used a technique known as metagenomics sequencing, which had not been previously used on mummified corpses.
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Egyptian catacombs are filled with mummified animals, from tiny wrapped scarab beetles to baboons enshrined in sarcophagi.
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Other rare exhibits include thousands of works from the pre-Colombian era, such as mummified Andean skeletons.
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When Western explorers arrived, they became increasingly curious about the mummified heads, according to the New Zealand museum.
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An excavation of the grave goods revealed that the mummified person was likely a noblewoman during her lifetime.
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Cats were mummified and formally mourned by their owners, who shaved their eyebrows off when their kitties died.
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Discovered in 1991 poking out of a glacier, Otzi is one of the oldest mummified people ever found.
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There was a 13th-century mummified man, a 1950s hairdresser salon, big paintings made completely in postage stamps.
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To save her from being mummified alive, they tried to flush out her abdominal cavity, according to TASS.
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She documented her journey and posted amazing pictures of landscapes, underwater shots, and mummified seals on her blog.
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They contended that the grave site was plundered and the mummified skeleton was stolen, violating the country's laws.
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A teacher who came across his body early that April morning described it as "mummified" by the fire.
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About 2,600 years ago, two lion cubs were mummified and buried in an ancient city of the dead.
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His mummified remains, found at a melting glacier in 1991, had a flint arrowhead embedded in the back.
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Bound and gagged, faces mummified in packaging tape, their corpses piled up on street corners and under bridges.
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But researchers left it alone for years, believing the small bundle inside contained gruesome mummified organs from embalming procedures.
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Unbeknownst to me, the memory had been mummified in my brain, ready to be re-awoken by the podcast.
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By analyzing his mummified body, scientists have learned much about this ancient European, and by inference, his Neolithic contemporaries.
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This gazelle was probably raised at a temple in order to be mummified and used as a burial offering.
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The mummified heads were part of Maori tradition to preserve loved ones or reviled enemies, according to Te Papa.
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Even better, part of Zuul's body was mummified, preserving the fingernail-like sheaths that covered its bony body armor.
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Under her clothes, she has slathered skin-lightening cream on her body and then mummified herself in Saran Wrap.
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Mummified psychoactive marijuana, likely used in shamanistic rituals, has been discovered in the royal tombs of China's Xinjiang region.
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In one photo, he's mummified from head-to-toe in black latex: a sex doll complete with club foot.
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And I was definitely not expecting hundreds of mummified corpses hanging in airless, limestone corridors beneath the city streets.
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According to reports, Hedviga Golik's mummified corpse was found by her greedy neighbors who — upon discovery — called the police.
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Ancient Egyptians mummified humans to preserve their bodies for the afterlife, while animal mummies were used as religious offerings.
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King Tut buried with 2 fetuses This is not the first time mummified ancient fetuses have been discovered in Egypt.
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A priest would have worn it during rituals for revivifying a mummified body so that the dead could live eternally.
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Inside lies the mummy Ahmanet, an undead pharaoh's daughter who was mummified alive and is royally pissed off about it.
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National Geographic says the mummified nodosaur weighs 2,500 pounds, not far off its 3,000-pound fighting weight estimated by experts.
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Among the items that were just returned are a cradle that once held a mummified baby and traditional burial masks.
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On March 30, 1991, an 11-year-old girl exploring in the same cave system came across a mummified hand.
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According to Egypt Today, the sarcophagus contains three male mummified bodies, one of which appears to have sustained head injuries.
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Excessive clotting blocked his small blood vessels, and his four limbs became "mummified" and so required amputation, wrote the study authors.
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And she's even consulted on a case where someone was envenomated by a mummified snake head years after the reptile died.
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"Given the fact that the mummified fetus was clearly human, the geneticists did not need to do further testing," said Killgrove.
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Scientists working at the Nicholson Museum discovered mummified remains in a sarcophagus acquired by the University of Sydney 19313 years ago.
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A bronze statue dedicated to Bastet was recovered with the mummified cats, along with a multitude of wooden gilded feline figurines.
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Eventually, von Cosel's secret was revealed, and the mummified Hoyos went from a private fixation to an equally obsessive public spectacle.
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The mummified body of a German sailor was discovered in a yacht drifting in the sea off the Philippines last Friday.
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Here, you'll find everything from the mummified remains of Stone Age islanders to medieval armor from the Danish invasion of 1361.
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The researchers uncovered a 2,600-year-old cache of mummified animals, including cats, cobras, crocodiles, and the first-ever lion cubs.
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Related: Pimp My Coffin Your Decaying Corpse Could Become a Tree CT Scans Reveal the Youngest Mummified Fetus Ever Found | Conservation Lab
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A tongue-in-cheek painting called Facelift explores every minute detail of a dude who has mummified his face with packaging tape.
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A bath, a cardboard box, the books of a lost library: These are the molds for Ms. Whiteread's sculptures, mute and mummified.
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Matter Nearly two decades ago, the rumors began: In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, someone had discovered a tiny mummified alien.
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While ancient Egyptians were well known for worshipping and mummifying animals, especially cats, mummified lions are extremely rare in the archaeological record.
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The ancient Egyptians populated their tombs with mummified pets, as companions, and other exotic animals, often as signifiers of wealth and status.
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Ireland: The head of an 800-year-old mummified Crusader was stolen from a historic Dublin church, and a crypt was damaged.
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The shield was among a number of contested items, including a Lakota war shirt, a mummified Nazca foot, and a Peruvian shrunken head.
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Skin mummified to its bones and a 70 percent complete skull make this one of the best preserved sauropod skeletons in the world.
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Navales said one of the fishermen peered through a window of the yacht and was shocked to see a body that looked mummified.
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A bronze cat statue dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet was found among 100 wooden gilded cat statues and dozens of mummified cats.
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Ireland: Thanks to a tip, the police in Dublin recovered a mummified head believed to belong to an 800-year-old Crusader knight.
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TOMS RIVER, N.J. — The hulking figure lay on its side in the long grass, partially mummified by a tarp and some bubble wrap.
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At first, János Balázs had no idea why the tiny hand he found in a storage box of bones was green and mummified.
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For example: Where did Egypt get the millions — yes, millions — of African sacred ibises that they mummified as offerings to the god Thoth?
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The looters tossed a headless, limbless mummified torso into a corner before attempting to set the room on fire to cover their tracks.
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But for the Egyptologists and medical professionals enthralled by Tomb 10A, the biggest prize was finally solving the mystery of the mummified head.
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The site was discovered near the village of Tuna al-Gabal, the site of a previously excavated necropolis for thousands of mummified animals.
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Every thought leaves the mummies' brains, which probably aren't in their skulls anyway, having been removed and mummified separately and put in amphorae.
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Before this, it was assumed that the dead man had been naturally mummified by the desiccating action of the hot, dry desert sand.
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While it's usually okay to enjoy a slimy shellfish or six, remains from very dead, mummified man show what happens when things go awry.
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A micro CT scan at Cambridge University's zoology department later revealed the first pictures of a tiny mummified human body held within undisturbed wrappings.
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Skinny also comes with large amounts of actual skin that has been mummified to its bones, giving an even rarer look at these creatures.
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The details: The team sampled 151 mummified individuals originally from the archaeological site of Abusir el-Meleq, along the Nile River in Middle Egypt.
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Some of history's most famous ink—like the artwork seen on Ötzi, the mummified iceman or the frozen Ukok princess—is also immaculately preserved.
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Almost mummified in bandages, Mumtaz had spent 225 days bed- bound in a clinic, unable to speak or even sip a glass of water.
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The mummified bales and portentous bells possess a solemnity at odds with the funhouse effects of the freckled mirrors in bright, Koons-esque colors.
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"To our knowledge this is the only mummified ice age wolf ever found in the world," Yukon government paleontologist Grant Zazula told the CBC.
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About 12 years later, a mummified hand was found, along with an arm and two legs wrapped in burlap in the same cave system.
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They were identified last week after a worker at a ski resort stumbled upon their mummified remains near the Alpine village of Les Diablerets.
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"I'm impatient to see them even if they are mummified and black after the 75 years they slept together in the glacier," she said.
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The mummified child, who died at two years old, was buried in the Basilica of Saint Domenico Maggiore in Naples during the 16th century.
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Instead, a creeping atmospheric tension builds through plenty of expressionist cinematography until we finally, and only briefly, see Karloff in his full "mummified" form.
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Zimmerman's experiments on modern mummified tissue suggest that mummification does not destroy evidence of the malignancy; he and colleagues found colorectal cancer in a mummy.
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SamadelliSince the discovery of his mummified body nearly 53 years ago, Ötzi the Iceman has provided scientists with heaps of information about Copper Age Europeans.
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Archaeologists and historians have been fascinated by King Tut's mummified remains and the mysterious objects found in his tomb since their discovery in the 1920s.
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At an excavation of a pharaoh's 4,500-year-old pyramid complex, Egyptian archaeologists discovered dozens of mummified cats — in addition to 100 ornate cat statues.
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Related: CT Scans Reveal the Youngest Mummified Fetus Ever Found | Conservation Lab Microscopic Slivers of Artworks Reveal Hidden Truths | Conservation Lab Painting Cover-Ups, Exposed!
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Next to the temple, 2000 mummified specimens — from hulking monsters to teacup versions — are enshrined in a dim museum, along with their croc-shaped coffins.
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It was Ms. Kind who urged her to use the intact, mummified body of a deer she had found on the side of the road.
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Twitter users were almost excited at the idea of a mummified being bringing destruction to the world, because really, how much worse could it get?
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The ancient Egyptians mummified animals such as cats, dogs, monkeys and birds as offerings to the gods or to help the animals reach the afterlife.
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But none of those burials was anything like the mummified green hand Dr. Balázs and his colleague, Zoltán Bölkei, had uncovered in that forgotten box.
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Preserved on his now mummified remains, the surviving image stands as one of the oldest tattoos in the world, as British researchers have recently found.
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For instance, the cast-iron Fisk coffins, patented in 1848 by Almond Fisk, have preserved flesh, bones, and clothing, sometimes as if they were mummified.
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Brenton Thwaites, as the "crafty" human, is carved together out of old mummified Wonder Bread; imagine Harry Hamlin from Clash of the Titans, but less dynamic.
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The finds include a toddler with leukemia, a mummified man in his 50s with rectal cancer and individuals with cancer possibly caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) .
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Previously, scientists had mistakenly assumed that the Turin mummy S. 43003 had been naturally mummified by hot and dry desert conditions, a process known as desiccation.
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There are other giant beasts housed at the museum - including an actual mummified woolly mammoth that lived about 11,000 years ago, according to the museum website.
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There are different numbers floating around, but according to researcher Kiyohiko Sakurai writing in a 1998 textbook, only 15 self-mummified bodies still remain in Japan.
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If you'd like to be mummified when you die, you can contact an organization in Salt Lake City, Utah, to arrange the procedure for around $70,000.
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The comic follows the story of Abaris, a mummified hand that works with its host body to stop the incursion of an evil, extra-dimensional consciousness.
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It's a ghost moth larvae that has been mummified by the fungus, and is an aphrodisiac as well as the most expensive mushroom in the world.
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I mined the archives at the Warhol Museum in search of bodily fragments and discovered that Andy Warhol owned a mummified human foot, among other things.
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Not to mention the "Vampire of Düsseldorf," an infamous German murderer whose mummified head came ashore in the baggage of a returning World War II soldier.
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They drove the chisel between the lips and gums behind the wisdom teeth, and were able to remove the same bones missing in the mummified skull.
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Scroll through his feed and you'll see mummified cats laid out on red velvet, Victorian dolls with staring glass eyes, pickled organs, and numerous ancient-looking craniums.
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The children — 213-year-old Hannah Marshall and 10-year-old Makayla Roberts — were found mummified in a car on Frederick "Alec" Blair's marijuana farm in 2017.
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There is a magnificent statue of a bull, the Apis, revered in Egypt as an aspect of Osiris and known in its mummified form as Osiris-Apis.
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Hieroglyphs are painted on a bright yellow ground inside the sarcophagus, although the mummified body of the princess was removed sometime before it reached France — and TEFAF.
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Mummification workshop Archaeologists also found the remains of what they think is a mummification workshop, a place where people were mummified before burial, in the tomb complex.
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In 2012, researchers studying a mummified body in Korea from the late 1600s discovered DNA from the hepatitis B virus, specifically a strain common today in Asia.
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The area is known for its archaeological finds, including the tomb of Petosiris, an ancient Egyptian priest, and a catacomb filled with mummified falcons, ibises and baboons.
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A second mummified body, believed to belong to a nun who died 300 years ago, was also badly damaged during a break-in at St. Michan's church.
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Evidence of some of them is found in mummified Egyptians; others are recorded in the Bible and the Talmud, and the writings of ancient scholars such as Hippocrates.
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Otzi, for those not up on their 5,300-year-old mummified men, died and was frozen in the Alps near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy.
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Allusions to non-Western cultures pop up, from patterned African masks to abdomen cowrie shells like those on Kongo figures to bandaged bodies that recall Egypt's mummified dead.
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His posthumous generosity more than doubles the hotel's toe reserves; before Stevenson signed on to surrender his digits, six mummified toes were available for use in the drink.
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Dakota, the 67-million-year-old mummified hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur, was discovered on a ranch near Marmarth, a city in the far southwest of North Dakota.
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Mr. Berlusconi, three times prime minister between 1994 and 2011, couldn't believe his luck when he realized that his mummified party, Forza Italia, is now back in fashion.
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A mummified wolf pup and caribou believed to have walked Earth over 50,000 years ago were discovered with tissue and fur intact — a remarkable find, Canadian authorities say.
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Among the treasures unearthed: a mummified head; a headless, limbless torso; and a chapel whose portico harbored two palm-columns, a rectangular inner hall and a deep chamber.
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He had a mummified body of one of the Holy Innocents—these were the 2,000 babies that Herod ordered slaughtered after he heard that a savior had been born.
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In the continuing quest to figure out whether the yeti exists, scientists analyzed nine "yeti" samples that came from sources like mummified animals and a stuffed yeti in museums.
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Much of exhibit, including mummified bodies, bundles containing mummies, and body parts that were unwrapped by tomb pillagers, cannot be photographed, and will have to be seen in person.
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Last year, the festival gave attention to "Finders Keepers," a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction documentary about an amputated, mummified human leg at the center of a custody battle.
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Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) is into some bloody, murderous, way-far-out-occult stuff — and for her crimes against nature she is mummified and sealed into one creepy-ass casket.
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Built during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu, the monument was a testament to the ruler's architectural prowess and is thought to have been a home for his mummified remains.
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Hong Kongers took to Facebook and WhatsApp messaging groups, circulating pictures of the hurried preparations: cars and motorcycles mummified with cling wrap, indoor storefronts encased with spiderweb-like tape.
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These mummified cubs — the first ones ever found in the archaeological record — were part of an unprecedented finding in the necropolis of Saqqara, Egypt, south of modern-day Cairo.
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Using a wealth of new scientific information, a seasoned homicide detective has developed a theory in a very cold case: the death of a mummified man 5,300 years ago.
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CT Scans recently performed on a 375-year-old mummified man revealed an unusual lump in his liver, which apparently harbored "a large number" of eggs from a parasitic fluke.
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Now, archaeologists have found the mummified body of that woman, whom they nicknamed Sleeping Beauty given the length of time she&aposs been buried and the riches found with her.
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Photo: Old MinneapolisAfter a Minneapolis Facebook group posted a photo of a mummified monkey discovered inside a historic building, Minnesota sleuths scrambled to figure out how it ended up there.
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Image: APArchaeologists working at a pyramid complex south of Cairo have discovered dozens of cat mummies, along with troves of wooden statues and a rare collection of mummified scarab beetles.
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The oldest surviving tattoos are geometric designs on a mummified corpse known as Otzi, who lived around 5,300 years ago and was discovered preserved in the Italian Alps in 1991.
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However, according to the Smithsonian Institute, the ancient Egyptians who were mummified were mostly pharaohs or members of the nobility because the process was expensive, so, effectively, mummy got moneeeeyyyy.
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The handset can peer inside sarcophagi to reveal mummified bodies, visualize lost architecture like the six-story Babylonian Ishtar Gate, and restore ancient limestone reliefs to their original, bright coloring.
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"[T]attoos have not yet been identified on any precontact mummified remains and few tattoo tools have been identified in the archaeological record," the authors noted in the new study.
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They've unearthed a cultural fossil record spanning a century: political buttons, ticket stubs, spelling tests, wheat pennies, flash cards, candy wrappers, and a mummified pet, its species hard to discern.
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Researchers also found connections between cats that lived millennia later, linking mummified kitties discovered in Egyptian tombs with cats found as far away as Bulgaria, Turkey, and sub-Sarahan Africa.
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Fortunately for science, his dead body was neatly preserved in a rock hollow and naturally mummified as the glaciers moved in and slid right over him, freezing his stomach contents.
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"She added "The Grand Egyptian Museum opens in 2020 and will knock the mummified socks off any other collection — we like the idea of seeing King Tut's boomerang throwing sticks.
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Residents of a village in Fujian, China, are suing for the return of a statue that contains the remains of a Buddhist monk who self-mummified himself around 1,000 years ago.
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Image 2 of 2 MOSCOW – Visitors are forbidden to photograph Vladimir Lenin&aposs mummified body in the mausoleum on Red Square — but nearby, Sergei Soloviev is happy to offer an alternative.
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The CT scans can be used to create 3D images, like this one of a teenage boy who was mummified (his skull can be seen in the introduction to this story).
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"Strange Fruit" (1992–1997) scatters empty, decaying fruit skins across the gallery; the peels sag and lump, and have the tender oddity of something dead and mummified, unable to be resuscitated.
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More than 90 objects from this college museum and the Brooklyn Museum collection suggest the reverential treatment the animals received in life and death (sometimes being mummified, just like the pharaohs).
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The students in the photographs, many of whom are young women, approach the remains with a quiet respect, often with notepad in hand as they analyze mummified limbs or exhumed bones.
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They're not cheap, but they're not truffle money or as dear as Yartsa Gunbu, an edible fungus that grows in mummified caterpillars (obviously, click on that link at your own risk).
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When the researchers dissected 51 love-vine-infested galls from one wasp species, they found that 45 percent contained a mummified adult wasp, compared with only 2 percent of uninfested galls.
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After his death in Johannesburg in 1944, his body was taken to Egypt, where it was mummified and where it stayed until 1950, when his remains were brought back to Iran.
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Yet he never comes out and says what Venice's spirit is, and how it might guide future plans to invigorate the city, to rescue it from its "mummified museum-city" self.
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DUBLIN — The head of a mummified Crusader, laid to rest in a Dublin church some 800 years ago, was stolen and a crypt vandalized, the police in Ireland discovered on Monday.
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The Egyptians clearly shared our modern appreciation for cat antics, because they established feline worship cults, integrated cats into artwork and culture, and mummified cat remains to preserve them for posterity.
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For the past 25 years, his mummified body has been a window into early human history, providing a peek into what life in the Alpine region was like during the Copper Age.
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For the past 25 years, his mummified body has been a window into early human history, providing a peak into what life in the Alpine region was like during the Copper Age.
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The caribou was found at the site of a 80,000-year-old volcanic ash bed and officials believe it's among the oldest mummified mammal tissue in the world, according to a release.
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Egyptian security officials at the Cairo International Airport foiled a plot to smuggle out of the country mummified limbs that were hidden inside a loudspeaker, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities announced on Sunday.
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An ersatz toe, made of wood and leather and found attached to the mummified body of an Egyptian noblewoman in Cairo, in 2000, is thought to be between 2,500 and 3,000 years old.
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An Arizona man convicted of murdering two people who were found mummified in a box in the backyard of his mother's home was sentenced this week to die for his crime, PEOPLE confirms.
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Mr. Duterte, making good on a campaign promise, has ordered the mummified body of our former dictator, Ferdinand E. Marcos, transferred this month to the Cemetery of Heroes here in Manila, the capital.
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She also lives with a wolf man, a taxidermy raccoon come to life and a formerly mummified cat from ancient Egypt, each of whom offers commentary on her laughably elaborate, often creepy projects.
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I'm old enough to remember people who hoarded audiotapes of Grateful Dead shows (and usually asked me to help them move, with giant stacks of these plastic boxes reverently mummified in duct tape).
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As the storm bore down, people took to Facebook and WhatsApp messaging groups, circulating photos of the hurried preparations: cars and motorcycles mummified with cling wrap, indoor storefronts encased with spiderweb-like tape.
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Those are among 59 Māori and Moriori remains being repatriated by four European institutions, including the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, which is returning skulls taken in 1890 and a mummified, tattooed Māori head.
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A new study published in PLOS Pathogens has found that a 16th-century mummified child may have actually been infected by an ancient strain of hepatitis B, not smallpox as scientists believed for decades.
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The mummified beetles were among artifacts found in seven tombs discovered over the past six months on the edge of the King Userkaf pyramid complex at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo.
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Burmese amber from the country is famous for containing mummified plant and animal life, with as much as 30 percent featuring "phenomenal biodiversity," according to David Grimaldi at the American Museum of Natural History.
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In any case, she added, humans were often accompanied by mummified animals on their journey to the afterworld, so that a tube of Mummy Brown might well contain the remains of crocodiles or cats.
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SOHAG, Egypt — Archaeologists in Egypt have recovered about 50 mummified animals, including mice, from a well-preserved and finely painted tomb thought to date from the early Ptolemaic period, more than 2,000 years ago.
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And if all of this feels nostalgic now that neighborhoods like SoHo have gone "from being gentrified to being mummified," as Spiegelman says, quoting her father, one shouldn't be too quick to lose hope.
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Artifact is recovered: Acting on a tip, the police in Ireland have recovered a mummified head believed to belong to an 800-year-old Crusader knight that was stolen from a medieval church crypt.
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The updated analysis was recently presented at the Extraordinary World Congress on Mummy Studies in the Canary Islands, and the new scans are considered the highest-resolution images ever taken of a mummified Egyptian fetus.
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Among the odder items that Miró kept on hand was the mummified corpse of his cat, which hangs from a wall in a room where he found the pet dead after accidentally locking it in.
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Murton says his team has already uncovered the mummified carcass of a bison within the sediment, as well as the frozen remains of a musk ox, mammoth, and a 4,400-year-old Holocene-era horse.
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Carbon dating indicated that it was in the cave for perhaps four thousand years, essentially mummified by the dry air, but believers argue that the dating was faulty and the animal was only recently dead.
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All around the world, she meets people less troubled by the physical reality of dead bodies, whether those bodies are burned to ash, mummified, "decomposting," or lying under glass in their natural, un-embalmed state.
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There was a time when London was regarded as the place that Broadway musicals went to be mummified, with stiff and self-conscious renderings of shows that required all-American brass and energy to shine.
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Meet his new nemesis, a princess (Sofia Boutella) who has been mummified since ancient Egypt, in the latest reboot of a concept that Universal Pictures has dined off since the Boris Karloff original in 1932.
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Nesyamun lived, died, and was mummified sometime around 1100 BCE, during the reign of Ramesses XI. His body, which remains immaculately preserved, has been a part of the Leeds City Museum collection since the 1800s.
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The archaeologists used CT scans to analyze the size and shape of the mummified animals&apos bones, according to the Ministry of Antiquities Facebook page, but the identity of the other wildcats remains a mystery.
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Obtaining mummified samples for genetic sequencing may prove difficult for researchers outside of Egypt as the country's government has barred foreign researchers from taking artifacts and ancient human remains out of the country since 1983.
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Earlier in the summer, in the South Tyrol, I'd taken the Via Alpina's Yellow trail up into the Ötztal Range where, in 1991, a five-thousand-year-old mummified body was discovered in melting ice.
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Even "Mummified," (1993), made up of bug specimens displayed in old tin cans laid out in an orderly fashion in a modern, leather briefcase, showcased Al Saddi's marvelous transformation of local critters into precious objects.
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As we walked through the building's collection of mummified noses, jellied tongues, and exquisitely preserved placentas, we spoke about history: from the band's past, to the backstory of the world, which is just as important.
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Following the transferral, the first monk to be mummified in the catacombs was Brother Silvestro da Gubbio, who was entombed on October 16, 1599, as the sign stuck to his coarse wool robe informs us.
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Image: APAmong the many findings, the Ministry announced the discovery of dozens of mummified cats and several scarab beetles, the latter of which are now the first to be found at Saqqara, the ministry officials said.
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It had been recovered from the crypt of the Dominican Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, which overlies a number of subterranean chambers which hold mummified and skeletonized human remains of both clergy and laypeople.
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The raid is even more sensitive since the cleric in question, Metropolitan Pavel, heads the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, one of Ukraine's most famous monasteries and a tourist site where mummified monks rest in labyrinthine underground caves.
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SOULFUL CREATURES: ANIMAL MUMMIES IN ANCIENT EGYPT The Egyptians mummified tens of millions of dogs, monkeys, ibises and other animals; there are 233 in this show, all drawn from the museum's permanent collection. Sept. 21–Jan.
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DUBLIN — A tip led the police in Dublin to a mummified head believed to belong to an 800-year-old Crusader knight, a week after it was stolen from a medieval church crypt in the city.
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In the frozen Canadian Yukon, miners dug up a mummified wolf pup from the ice age, believed to be more than 50,000 years old, and the incomplete corpse of a caribou calf from the same period.
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The book is packed with all kinds of oddities, ranging from a garden lush with botanical poisons (in Alnwick, England) to a temple known for displaying the bodies of self-mummified monks (on Mount Yudono, Japan).
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Identifying the remains The Wayne County Medical Examiner is working to identify the remains and notify any families, but the state of the remains, some of which are in "mummified conditions," is making the process difficult.
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An arresting image of a "mummified" dinosaur went viral this weekend after National Geographic…Read more ReadBrown, along with a team of international researchers, has now completed the first extensive analysis of this extraordinary three-dimensional fossil.
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He wasn't working on any of his equipment when he was killed, as all of his tools were found in their respective bags—except the dagger, which was found lying in meltwater next to Ötzi's mummified body.
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The German sailor whose mummified body was found on a yacht off the Philippines had a heart attack and died about a week prior to being discovered, police spokesman Chief Superintendent Wilben Mayor says, the AFP reports.
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As you've no doubt seen on your own feeds, a man in Canada is on the run with a mummified toe he stole from a bar that sells a stupid gross drink with a toe in it.
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SAQQARA, Egypt (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Egypt said on Saturday they had discovered a rare collection of mummified scarab beetles, as well as an apparently pristine Fifth Dynasty tomb that they plan to open in the coming weeks.
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Scarab beetles were also important symbols in ancient Egyptian religion and were associated with the sun god Ra. "The (mummified) scarab is something really unique," Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Reuters.
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Read: Scientists unravel the mystery of the Roman 'gate to hell' Such evidence has often been exposed to extreme conditions, so the FBI saw the mummified head as an opportunity to practice extracting DNA from contaminated materials.
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Its biggest attraction, known as the Oxford dodo, are the mummified head and foot of one of the flightless birds, which lived on the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until they became extinct by 1680.
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The audience doesn't quite realize that until the film's very end (when her mummified remains are discovered in Norman Bates's cellar), but even when viewers assume Mother is alive, director Alfred Hitchcock keeps his distance, building her mystique.
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The local business community cheered his victory because he was also one of them: before entering politics he had been a furniture exporter, and thus understood what it was like to be mummified by Indonesia's notorious red tape.
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Two weeks ago, a mummified toe was stolen from a hotel bar, proving once again that there's truly no limits when it comes to the things people steal when dining at a restaurant or going out at night.
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In the southern part of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, Doughty visits families who live with their mummified dead for months or even years, dressing and feeding them, until the dead are ready to go into their graves.
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Ancient Egyptians were tattooing themselves as far back as 5,000 years ago, around the same time that Bronze Age Europeans were doing the same, as evidenced by the 61 tattoos found on the mummified remains of Ötzi The Iceman.
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In 1991, hikers found a corpse frozen in ice in the Austro-Italian Alps that they thought was a lost mountaineer; archaeologists determined that he was more than 5,000 years old, making him Europe's oldest known naturally mummified human.
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The discovery in the Lithuanian crypt is one of the latest in a long line of important medical findings that have used intensive analysis of mummified to show how diseases connect modern humans to the experiences of our forebears.
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If you have a kink for doing something like, you know, mummifying somebody or being mummified, you're really gonna have to talk with the person you're playing with to describe exactly what it is you do like and don't like.
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Since his discovery in 1991, Ötzi the "Iceman" — an intact, naturally mummified man believed to have lived in the Italian Alps approximately 5,300 years ago — has captured the international imagination and provided a tantalizing glimpse into life during the Copper Age.
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When you're dressed for the cold weather in layers of fleece leggings, and practically mummified by a floor-length puffy coat, the last thing you want to do is peel off all your cozy clothes just to go to the bathroom.
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Of all my memories of that summer in Peru—drinking pisco in the desert, finding a mummified baby, unwrapping it under less than scientifically optimal conditions— the one that stands out most is the memory of my first lucid dream.
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If she is correct, preserving the body would have been less important than the process of wrapping itself, to sanctify the deceased — generally a high-status individual, since the bodies of ordinary Egyptians were not mummified — and treat them as divine.
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The body, known as the Crusader, was the oldest and most famous of several naturally mummified by the dry air and methane-rich soil in the crypt of St. Michan's, an Anglican church on the north side of the city center.
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The study of mummified remains in other parts of the world has yielded historical perspective on the spread of deadly diseases and damaging medical conditions, from heart disease in pre-Columbian Americans to various strains of tuberculosis in 19th-century Europeans.
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Samantha Blatt, a bioarcheologist at Idaho State University, said the temperature of the cave sand— around 37 Fahrenheit — might have contributed to the fact that the mummified remains retained an odor of decomposition, which was rare after so many years.
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St. Michan's attracts around 28,000 paying visitors a year, who come to tour its small but historically significant interior, which includes the organ on which George Frideric Handel wrote his "Messiah" oratorio, and view the mummified bodies in their open coffins.
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Alongside are "touch tables" where recent CT scans allow viewers to pull back the wrappings, whether on a mummified Egyptian gazelle or a Peruvian woman with a newborn, something that in the past would have been physically done by archaeologists.
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Back in 2002, Science magazine was telling much of the same tale, complete with gruesome details about digging up young, mummified smallpox victims, finding the pustules, and drenching the area with disinfectant so no one would be able to resurrect the disease.
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LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt's authorities on Saturday revealed artifacts and a linen-wrapped mummified body, possibly that of a top official, from two tombs that were discovered two decades ago in the Nile city of Luxor but had not been fully unexplored.
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The new owner of the property, Naveed Syed, told the Free Press that the bodies were "embalmed" or "mummified" and were up to three years old, though it's unclear if he was referring to their age or how long they had been dead.
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An exhibition that same year on "The Art of Hair: Frivolities and Trophies" included displays of American Indian scalps, Ecuadorean shrunken heads and Peruvian mummified trophy heads, as well as masks, jewelry, talismans, clothing and weapons made, or decorated with, human hair.
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"The Crow Girl" — a Swedish thriller written by Erik Axl Sund — begins with a body discovered in some bushes, the mummified remains of a boy who has been horribly abused, his skin split with wounds and colored with bruises, his genitals excised.
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LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - A century after the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered, revealing the mummified boy-king buried more than 3,000 years ago, it has re-opened, brighter and safer thanks to painstaking work to repair damage caused by dust, damp and visitors.
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It was followed by "Requiem Request," a 20-minute work choreographed by Gregory Maqoma, which begins with a lone, mummified figure (Thulani Chauke) struggling to break out of the bands of tape that bind his limbs to his sides and mask his face.
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To get to the bottom of this, researchers looked at mummified leaves from the bottom of an ancient lake in New Zealand, which was "just an extremely lucky combination of circumstances," lead author Tammo Reichgelt of Columbia University told me in an email.
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While the authorities refused to say whether the recent discovery was, in fact, the mummified remains of Reza Shah, many Iranians took the official reluctance, the location of the find and the virtual absence of mummies in the country as proof positive.
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The Saturday and Sunday brunch options at the Nitehawk aren't exactly flattering choices for Mom: Mothers are variously competing for the limelight (in "Postcards From the Edge," also showing at the Alamo Drafthouse on Sunday), mummified ("Psycho") or, well, Joan Crawford ("Mommie Dearest").
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An answer may have surfaced last week, when a ski resort worker came across two mummified bodies, buried in ice and dressed in well-preserved clothes from the World War II era, near the two-mile-long Tsanfleuron glacier in the western Alps.
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On Wednesday, the mystery of what happened to the couple was finally solved as the police formally identified two mummified bodies found last week in an Alpine glacier as those of Marcelin Dumoulin, 40, and his wife, Francine, a 37-year-old teacher.
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Expect plenty of old masters, but don't miss the crime scene dioramas, mummified monkeys or Eliot Noyes's unrealized Westinghouse pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair — all of it providing a welcome counterbalance to the hothouse of contemporary gallery art that also begins in September.
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"These weren't your run-of-the-mill New York City cat that would sleep by the window," said Dr. Anthony Fischetti, a staff doctor and the head of diagnostic imaging and radiology at the Animal Medical Center in Manhattan, who helped identify the mummified remains.
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According to historical records from that time period and the presence of mummified cuy in human graves, the guinea pig seems to have become part of the Peruvian diet in the 12th or 13th century, mostly because it was a readily available source of meat.
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The world caught its first glimpse of this magnificent "mummified" specimen back in May, when National Geographic released a set of remarkable images showing not a jig-sawed collection of re-assembled bones, but an intact animal that still appeared to be wearing its original skin.
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Throughout season four, Bates Motel has seemed to be barreling toward the moment when Norma goes from a living, vital presence to the mummified corpse in the cellar we see in Psycho, someone who only exists as a hallucination goading Norman into greater and greater crimes.
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This massive, heavily armored tank of a dinosaur was mummified and fossilized 110 million years ago, and what we have now is a near-perfect preservation of the front half of the animal, including soft tissues such as skin and keratin sheaths over the spikes and ossicles.
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In the Studio In a new video for season four of the "In the Studio" series, Dries Van Noten, from his office in Antwerp, Belgium, talked about being a control freak, the relationship between making fashion and food, and finding a mummified man in his building.
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The two encounter a mysterious figure that appears to be mummified, gripped by a magical hand, and deeply evil — you can tell from the streams of horrible goo coming from it, and from how its eyes glowed red when it detected the presence of our heroes.
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If you climb down into a particular section of catacombs at Saqqara, Dr. Wasef said, "the rooms are filled from floor to ceiling" with mummified ibises once proffered to Thoth in hopes that the deity would help devotees improve their writing skills or take down a nasty boss.
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Mummies (and how they were unwrapped and studied) were used as a building block of race science — as practitioners measured skulls and bodies, they kept insisting that mummified Egyptians, especially royal bodies, were not African but Caucasian — and so used to justify European exertion of control over modern Egypt.
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The study's authors also managed to obtain full mitochondrial genomes from more than a dozen mummified ibises, further proving "the feasibility of Egyptian mummies for ancient DNA studies," said Albert Zink, head of the Institute for Mummy Studies at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy, who was not involved in the study.
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Whether chatting with Indonesian families as they casually clean the mummified remains of their ancestors or watching Japanese mourners pick bones from cremains with chopsticks before putting the ashes in high-tech glowing Buddhas, Doughty finds the humanity in others cultures' relationship with death that seems to be lacking in ours.
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Image Credit and Copyright: Robert Clark/National GeographicAn arresting image of a "mummified" dinosaur went viral this weekend after National Geographic broke the story of the 110-million-year-old armored plant-eater, a newfound species of nodosaur whose exquisite remains are now on display in the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada.
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Archaeologists discovered a catacomb filled with mummified lion cubs, crocodiles, and cobras in an ancient Egyptian city of the deadExpert with new theory on Nefertiti's tomb invited to EgyptScientists say they're 90% sure they've found a hidden chamber in King Tut's tomb — and they have a theory on who it might belong to
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FOUND DEAD PERSON-About 4:00 in the afternoon of February 26, 2016, personnel of Barobo PS received information from... Reports of his death went viral because of the unusual way his body had been "mummified" and authorities conducted the autopsy to find out how long he had been dead before he was discovered.
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Meanwhile, there is some debate over whether this is, in fact, the absolute youngest Egyptian mummy ever found, as this mummified fetus from the Egypt Centre at Swansea University is thought to be 12-16 weeks old (because of its unknown provenance and the fake hieroglyphs on its coffin, however, it remains a bit controversial).
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Read more: How WeWork paid Adam Neumann $5.9 million to use the name 'We'This is more reminiscent of the cheap marbled paneling you'd find in Mike Brady's home office — paneling whose mucilaginous coating will dissipate at the first whiff of a recession, revealing a family of raccoons or the mummified corpses of drug mules.
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Now, in "Animals Strike Curious Poses," she has written biographies of famous animals from Yuka the mummified mammoth (37,000 B.C.) to Cecil the Lion (2015), taking in on the way a menagerie as various as Albrecht Dürer's rhinoceros; Elizabethan fighting bears; Mr. Ed; a space-station spider; and the tortoise reputedly kidnapped by Darwin.
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A bizarre but equally absorbing inversion of the life-art nexus can be found in the well-known Catacombs of the Capuchins, a vast crypt resting beneath a monastery where 8000 corpses are interred along with more than 1200 mummified remains, which are arrayed in open coffins or hung in standing positions along the walls.
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More on this... Image Gallery: 25 Amazing Ancient Beasts In Photos: Mummified Woolly Mammoth Discovered 10 Extinct Giants That Once Roamed North America "Most bones, tusks and teeth from mammoths and other ice age animals haven&apost survived," study researcher Love Dalén, a professor of evolutionary genetics at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, said in a statement.
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I could even be O.K. with somebody surgically dismembering a pedophilic businessman and using his blood to roller paint a room — if I hadn't had to endure several hundred pages seeing kids getting their teeth pliered out, their eyes struck with a hammer, their bodies beaten with electrical cables and being drugged, molested, mummified and hanged.
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The operator of the excavator snapped a selfie with the mummified corpse last month and posted it on social media, where it spawned an enticing theory that spread widely: The remains must be those of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Cossack Brigade officer whom the British helped install as shah in 1925, beginning a family dynasty that lasted 54 years.
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Mummies in particular were all the rage: The 22001 London World's Fair included an Egyptian bazaar, and 20143,22014 entrants to the 21999 Franco-British Exhibition saw an exhibit in which a mummy transformed into Pharaoh's daughter and back again; societies and lecturers would host "unwrapping parties" in Victorian England in which mummified corpses were dramatically revealed to the public.
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To keep things moving, Mr. Falls and Mr. Bockley boiled the novel down to essential characters and story lines, though they would periodically restore some of the stories-within-stories-within-stories, like the tale of a painter who attaches his mummified hand to a self-portrait — one of the many stories of artistic madness that pop up throughout Mr. Bolaño's work.
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From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Fox also ran the Freakatorium, El Museo Loco, a small museum on New York's Lower East Side that harbored artifacts including clothing worn by Tom Thumb, the P. T. Barnum performer; a mummified cat said to be from an Egyptian tomb; and a glass eye that supposedly belonged to Sammy Davis Jr. "When you walk in, you'll immediately notice the two-headed cow head and the two-headed snake," Mr. Hartzman wrote in an article about the museum in Bizarre magazine.
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