mummies
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Ancient Tomb Discovered In Egypt Believed To Be Over 4300 Years Old
To this day, Egyptian archaeologists continue to discover new tombs and relics, with the most recent being a 3500-year-old mummy just a couple of months ago. Now, the Egypt Antiquities Ministry has reveal another find — the 4300-year-old tomb of a powerful woman by the name of “Hetpet”.
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Siberian Miners Definitely Didn’t Just Find A Demon Baby
Diamond miners in the remote Siberian town of Udachny received quite a shock this week, when instead of pulling shiny rocks from the sand they unearthed a bizarre mummified creature that looks more than a little like the escaped spawn of that three-jawed dog monster in The Thing. Is anything ever normal in Siberia?
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The Gruesome And Excruciating Practice Of Mummifying Your Own Body
Mummification is a fascinating way to preserve a person’s remains, whether to be worshipped or because they’re planning on using that body at a later date. But some people have gone to incredible lengths to prepare their own bodies for mummification while they were still alive.
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Mummified Monk Found Inside Millennia-Old Buddha Statue
It’s not every day you stick an ancient Chinese artefact into a computerised tomography (CT) scanner and discover a dead person sitting inside. Yet, this is exactly what happened when a team at the Meander Medical Centre in the Netherlands recently peeked at the internals of a Buddha statue from the 11th/12th century, only to…