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Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...
Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed a 1,000-year-old mummy in the latest discovery at an archaeological site located in a residential neighborhood of the country's capital, Lima. The remains ...
X-ray scans answer 3,000-year-old mystery of Egyptian ‘locked mummy’ ... Scans also revealed that Lady Chenet-aa was in her 30s or early 40s at the time of her death 3,000 years old.
The mummy of Wah was discovered in a 1920 dig organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The mummy was displayed for years before X-ray analysis revealed a number of small objects of value within the wrapping. [40] [41] The outer layer of the body's linen wrappings were dyed red and inscribed with protective words. [42] [43 ...
DNA from the hip bone of a 5,000-year-old mummy discovered in the Italian Alps more than 30 years ago tells researchers that Oetzi — a hunter who was killed with an arrow — had Turkish roots ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
The "extraordinary" tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian woman has been found 4,000 years after her death. ... 4,300-Year-Old Mummy Covered in Gold Is Among the Dazzling Discoveries Made at Egyptian Site.
Date Author Source Document Notes April 1833 W. E. Horner M.D. Reproduced in Times and Seasons 2 May 1842 Having examined with considerable attention and deep interest, a number of Mummies from the catacombs, near Thebes, in Egypt, and now exhibited in the Arcade, we beg leave to recommend them to the observation of the curious inquirer on subjects of a period so long elapsed; probably not ...