Mummies

5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong

Cracked.com | Posted 04.20.2012

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A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn't anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look. Still, experts in ...

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Museum Displays Rare Egyptian And Peruvian Mummies

AP | Posted 02.19.2012

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CHICAGO -- Chicago's Field Museum has opened a rare display of mummies from its own collection. Many of them haven't been seen by the public since the...

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Researchers Find Cancer In Ancient Egyptian Mummy

AP | Posted 01.30.2012

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CAIRO -- A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by...

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Wandering Through The Peruvian Hinterlands

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 02.22.2012

Drive past herds of lamas and alpacas on your way to Colca Canyon and Cruz del Condor, where Andean condors fly so close you can hear their wings flapping.

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Sexy Mummies Are the New Sexy Vampires

Dave Scheidt | Posted 01.09.2012

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The world was missing something and I realized it was sexy, forbidden love between a young teen girl and a thousand-year-old decomposing Egyptian mummy prince.

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Russian Police Find 29 Mummified Bodies In Historian's Home

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 01.07.2012

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MOSCOW — The Russian historian had always been open about his interest in the dead and eagerly described how he loved to rummage through cemeter...

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Mummies 101: 'Sorceress' Teaches How To Preserve Pets Forever

Patch | Posted 10.08.2011

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If one self-proclaimed necromancer in Brooklyn has her way, pet cemeteries could become a thing of the past. That's because the sorceress known as Sor...

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Mummies Overtaking Zombies? Well, This Week Anyway

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.15.2011

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As far as pop culture interest goes, it's hard to beat the massive zombie onslaught. However, mummies may be taking them over for at least this wee...

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Egyptian Museum's Zahi Hawass On The Antiquities Looting Crisis

Zahi Hawass | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Friday, January 28, 2011, when the protest marches began in Cairo, I heard that a curfew had been issued that started at 6.00pm on Friday evening u...

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Road Trip To Milwaukee To See 'Mummies Of The World'

Thu Huffington Post | Aixa Velez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whether you're looking to get away for a few hours or a few days, Milwaukee is only about 100 miles from Chicago and now has the world's largest exhib...

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Mummified Body FOUND Under Home In Southern California

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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EL MONTE, Calif. — Los Angeles County authorities say a mummified body found under an empty home may be the remains of a man who went missing fi...

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Roman-Era Mummy Found In Egyptian Oasis

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAIRO — Egyptian archaeologists discovered an intricately carved plaster sarcophagus portraying a wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic in a newly ...

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Lady Hor Unwrapped (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Mummies from Egypt have long fascinated us, as they preserve the secrets of the ancient civilization in enough detail to recreate how life was back th...

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Egypt: Mummies Unearthed From 57 Ancient Tombs

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAIRO — Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, E...

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Mummies Had Heart Disease

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 05.25.2011

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ORLANDO, Fla. — You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. "We think of i...

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Mummies Of Guanajanto: Amazingly Preserved Mummies Go On Display (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fans of the macabre rejoice: the Mummies of Guanajanto, an amazing collection of mummified bodies of people who died during a cholera outbreak Mexico ...

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Egypt: Mummies Found In Newly Discovered Tomb

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAIRO — A storeroom housing about two dozen ancient Egyptian mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb during the latest round of ...

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