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Pearl of Great Price. The Joseph Smith Papyri (JSP) are Egyptian funerary papyrus fragments from ancient Thebes dated between 300 and 100 BC which, along with four mummies, were once owned by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Smith purchased the mummies and papyrus documents from a traveling exhibitor in Kirtland, Ohio ...
Another mummy from the same place is the "Princess of Xiaohe". The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries BCE, [1][2][3] with a new group of individuals recently dated to between c. 2100 and 1700 BCE. [4][5] The Tarim population to which ...
Sep. 22—"Mummies of the World: The Exhibition" is a delicate endeavor in more ways than one. ... The News-Herald, Willoughby, Ohio. September 22, 2023 at 11:46 AM ... Veronica, and their 1-year ...
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 ...
561.8 ha. Hopewell Culture National Historical Park is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished from about 200 BC to 500 AD. The park is composed of four separate sites open to the public in Ross County, Ohio, including the former Mound City Group ...
During an unprecedented session in September, Mexican journalist José Jaime Maussan presented two boxes containing shriveled bodies with shrunken, warped heads — supposed mummies found in Peru.
An expedition in Damietta, Egypt, recently unearthed 63 tombs from more than 2,500 years ago, alongside a trove of coins, gold objects and pottery. Experts are also using the latest techniques to ...
Although thought to be mythical, the reality of Nimerigar tales was called into question in 1932 with the discovery of the San Pedro Mountains mummy, a 14 in (36 cm)-tall mummy (6.5 in (17 cm) seated [3]) found in a cave 60 miles south of Casper, Wyoming. Extensive tests were carried out on the mummy, with the initial belief that it was a hoax.