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  2. List of mummies - Wikipedia

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    [50] [51] Yvette Vickers: US: cremated Zagreb mummy: Croatia: the bindings of the mummy were created 250–100 BCE as a book, around 100 CE there was a shortage of bindings and other materials like the book were used: Zhang Xiong (張雄) China: 584–633 [52] Zhou Yu (周瑀) China: 1222–1262 [37]

  3. List of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies

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    Ca. 37,000-year-old cub of Homotherium latidens found near the Badyarikha River, Siberia. This is a list of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies. It includes all known species that have had their tissues partially preserved within the permafrost layer of the Arctic and Subarctic.

  4. Mummy - Wikipedia

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    The mummy of a six-month-old boy found in Qilakitsoq. In 1972, eight remarkably preserved mummies were discovered at an abandoned Inuit settlement called Qilakitsoq, in Greenland. The "Greenland Mummies" consisted of a six-month-old baby, a four-year-old boy, and six women of various ages, who died around 500 years ago.

  5. Lucy (Australopithecus) - Wikipedia

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    Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...

  6. Qilakitsoq - Wikipedia

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    The Inuit mummies of Qilakitsoq offer important insights into the lives of Inuit about 500 years ago. Qilakitsoq is located in West Greenland near the city of Uummannaq on the northern coast of the Nuussuaq peninsula ( Greenlandic : Big Cape) in a sheltered cover of the Karrat Fjord .

  7. Experts have begun examining some of the bundles — one belonging to a newborn and one belonging to an approximately 15-year-old girl — Majchrzak said. The bodies were intentionally mummified.

  8. List of DNA-tested mummies - Wikipedia

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    This is a purported list of ancient humans remains, including mummies, that may have been DNA tested. ... 500-year-old Inca child Argentina 500 [23] C1b [23]

  9. Valley of the Golden Mummies - Wikipedia

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    The Valley of the Golden Mummies is a huge burial site at Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt, dating to the Greco-Roman period. Discovered in 1996 by Zahi Hawass and his Egyptian team, approximately two hundred fifty mummies approximately two thousand years old were recovered over the period of several seasons. Eventually, the ...