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Ancient Pharaoh Mummy Mystery Solved

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 12.18.2012 | Science

In a murder mystery fit for prime time, scientists say they have solved the 3,000-year-old killing of one of Egypt's last great pharaohs. The first...

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Scans Reveal Ancient Mummy's Dreadful Last Days

Posted 10.10.2012 | Science

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By: Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor Published: 10/10/2012 07:17 AM EDT on LiveScience Around 2,100 years ago, at a time when Egypt was ruled...

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LOOK: Siberian Mummy Tattoos Date Back 2,500 Years

The Huffington Post | Cavan Sieczkowski | Posted 08.20.2012 | Science

A Siberian mummy with intricate tattoos decorating her body has been revealed in Russia. Researchers estimate the mysterious woman, known as the U...

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Disturbing Way One Culture Learned Mummification

| Posted 08.14.2012 | Science

Read More: Chile, Mummification, South America, Ancient Egypt, Video, Mummy, Egypt, Chinchorro, Mummies, Corpse, Psychology, Archaeology, Death, Science News

by Emily Underwood on 13 August 2012, 3:10 PM | Trekking through Chile's Atacama Desert 7000 years ago, hunter-gatherers known as the Chinchorro ...

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A Mummy in Chicago

Elio Leturia | Posted 08.15.2012 | Latino Voices

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Eugene Davis could never have thought he would end up like an Egyptian. Mummified. This citizen of Blue Island, 17 miles south of Chicago, was found dead last May 22 on the floor of his home, near his bed, mummified--without being embalmed.

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Ancient Mummy Suffered Rare And Painful Disease

Posted 04.27.2012 | Science

Read More: Egyptian Mummies, History, Ancient Egypt, Video, Mummy, Egypt, Disease, Anthropology, Sarcophagus, Cancer, Diabetes, Archaeology, Science News

By: Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/27/2012 01:32 PM EDT on LiveScience Around 2,900 years ago, an ancient Egyptian man, likel...

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Meet The McDonald's Mummy

Posted 04.25.2012 | Arts

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Artist Ben Campbell stumbled upon a connection between modern society and ancient Egypt: we're all yearning for immortality. Whether through mummifica...

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'Mummy' Reboot Comes Alive For Universal

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 04.04.2012 | Entertainment

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The "Mummy" reboot you've been waiting for has finally arrived? Variety reports that Jon Spaihts will write the script for "The Mummy," which was last...

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Iceman Suffered From Modern Maladies, DNA Analysis Reveals

Posted 02.29.2012 | Science

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By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/28/2012 12:40 PM EST on LiveScience The 5,300-year-old ice mummy dubbed Ötzi, discover...

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Researchers Find Cancer In Ancient Egyptian Mummy

AP | Posted 01.30.2012 | Weird News

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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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Poetry: All the Apathetic Monsters

Hannah Stephenson | Posted 07.25.2011 | Arts

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Funny thing about being undead. You are/more fragile than ever, extremely flammable/and they always hear your approach.

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Mummy, Baby John, Taken From Grave At Blossom Hill Cemetery In Concord, New Hampshire

AP | KATHY McCORMACK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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CONCORD, N.H. — The mummified body of a baby, kept by a family for nearly a century before a judge ordered the remains to be buried, has been re...

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Roman-Era Mummy Found In Egyptian Oasis

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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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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Ancient Mummy Unveiled In Egypt

AP | KATARINA KRATOVAC | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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SAQQARA, Egypt — Illuminated only by torches and camera lights, Egyptian laborers used crowbars and picks Wednesday to lift the lid off a 2,600-...

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Revealed: King Tut's Face Shown To Public For First Time

AP | ANNA JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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The face of King Tut was unshrouded in public for the first time on Sunday -- 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's golden enshrined tomb an...

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