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Egyptian Mummies
King
Tut: Many
historians and researchers believe that Tutankhamun was murdered. Follow this
link to explore some recent articles concerning the latest autopsy reports.
KV-63:
New Intact Tomb:
This undisturbed tomb is quite sensational because it is
a recent (and unexpected) discovery in the Valley of the Kings,
about 50 feet from King Tut's tomb.
Nesyamun:
A mystery mummy of an Egyptian priest who had an unusual
tongue...at least in death.
Nefertiti:
Could
the missing mummy of Nefertiti
actually have been discovered a century ago and simply misidentified?
Padihershef:
The first complete Egyptian
mummy to tour the United States...way back in the 1800s. He had quite a
life--and death.
Rameses
I: The
mummy of the long lost king ended up in a small museum in Niagara Falls
before it was purchased by the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory
University in Atlanta. Now he's back in Egypt at long last.
Senbi the
Scribe: His
mummified head is all that remains, beside his bare bones. He lives
at the Cleveland Museum of natural History, but his home is a box in
the back room. But you can see him at the Mummy Tombs.
Valley
of the Golden Mummies:
A major discovery
at the Bahariya Oasis, this site is an ancient cemetery filled with
2 square miles of tombs.
WWN
Mummy Hoax: Enquiring minds wanted to know about the front page story of the
Weekly World News
for the
week of October 8, 2002. Could the headlines be true?:
"3000-year-old mummy to be a mommy! Sonograms reveal a faint
heartbeat of unborn child in mummy's womb, say doctors."
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World Mummies
Curiosities: In
the 1800s and 1900s strange mummies were often displayed in carnival
sideshows or back parlors of funeral homes. And sometimes they found
their way into museums as "curiosities" for people to gawk at.
Here are three such mummies
Elmer
McCurdy: A
minor wild west outlaw who
demonstrates how
a mummy can become big business.
Famous
Mummies:
A look at some of the more famous mummified individuals of the world.
Franklin
Expedition:
Frozen mummies help solve the
mystery of a tragic search for a Northwest Passage
Frozen
WW2 Airmen:
Two World War II
airmen
whose preserved and frozen bodies were found in a California glacier
Glacier
mummies: Melting
alpine glaciers are releasing the bodies of long-lost people, now
preserved
Iranian
Salt Mummies: So
far, six ancient mummified bodies have been found in a salt mine...and studies
are underway to discover more about them
Ishi:
What happened
to the man known as the 'last of his tribe"
Juanita:
Juanita (also known as
"The Ice Maiden") was Discovered on the top of Mount Ampato near
Arequipa, Peru, in 1995, the Ice Maiden was an Incan sacrifice. Is she being
sacrificed again to feed the public's curiosity?
Lemon Grove
Girl: Stolen
from her burial cave near Chihuahua, Mexico, this girl is
displayed at the Museum of Man. Read her tragic story.
John
Wilkes Booth:
The assassin
of Abraham Lincoln was reportedly turned into a mummy and exhibited
in many carnival sideshows...mummy myth or mummy fact?
Kwaday
Dan Ts’ěnchí: Three
Canadian sheep hunters discovered the mummified body of what scientists first
thought was an ancient man. Was he similar to Ötzi the Iceman? Yes--and
no.
Ötzi
the Iceman: The
5,300-year-old archaeological sensation!
Plaster
Casts of Pompeii:
Hollow spaces within the hardened volcanic debris at Pompeii revealed the forms
of many deceased Romans. Read about their heartbreaking fates when Vesuvius
erupted in AD 79.
Vuc
Khac Minh: The
almost 400-year-old mummified body of a Buddhist monk from Vietnam.
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Animal Mummies
Blue
Babe the Bison:
The mummy of a 36,000
year-old male bison was discovered just north of Fairbanks, Alaska, made
for an interesting stew.
Damien
Hirst's Animal Mummies:
British artist Damien
Hirst has created controversial artwork using the preserved (and
sometimes not-so-preserved) corpses of animals. See what you think.
Dolly
the Cloned Sheep:
The first adult mammal ever cloned is now a mummy in a
Scottish museum
Egyptian
Animal Mummies: They came in four varieties, but the
saddest of all the animal mummies were the kittens of Egypt.
Hunting
Dog Mummy: Many
animals have been mummified, but few have a mummy tale as unique as the
hound dog of Waycross, Georgia.
Dinosaur
Mummies
Dakota
the Hadrosaur: The
latest and perhaps most important discovery of a dinosaur mummy fossil.
Dinosaur
#1: Scipionyx
samniticus with preserved soft tissue.
Dinosaur
#2: Santanaraptor
with preserved soft tissue.
Dinosaur
#3: Fossilized
preserved skin
Leonardo
the Brachylophosaurus: a two-legged, plant-eating duck-billed
dinosaur with 80 percent of its skin and muscles intact.
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