Mummy

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Mummified US man identified and buried after 128 years on display

His send-off included a colorful procession with a motorcycle hearse carrying his casket

Photo: Reuters
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Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru residential neighborhood

Workers wrap the skeletal remains and parts of the funerary bundle of a mummy found by Peruvian archaeologists in the ruins of Cajarmarquilla, in the outskirts of Lima, Peru April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda
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Archaeologists in Peru find adolescent mummy wrapped in bundle

A statue is displayed after the announcement of the discovery of 4,300-year-old sealed tombs, which have made a number of important archaeological discoveries dating to the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom, also stated that the expedition had found a group of Old Kingdom tombs, indicating that the site comprised a large cemetery, where the most important tomb belonged to Khnumdjedef, an inspector of the officials, a supervisor of the nobles, and a priest in the pyramid complex of Unas, the last kind of the fifth dynasty, in Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, in Giza, Egypt, January 26, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
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Archaeologist hails possibly 'oldest' mummy yet found in Egypt

Royal mummies are transported in a convoy from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, in Cairo, Egypt April 3, 2021. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Egyptian mummies paraded through Cairo on way to new museum

Men pass in front of poster for pharaohs golden parade after the renovation of Tahrir Square for transferring 22 mummies from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, amidst the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Cairo, Egypt, April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo
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Majestic Cairo parade as Egyptian mummies move museum

Ramesses II’s mummy was issued a passport after 3 thousand years of his death
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Ramesses II’s mummy was issued a passport after 3 thousand years of his death

Nesyamun was a priest at Karnak temple in ancient Thebes (modern-day Luxor). Photo: BBC
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3,000-year-old mummy is talking?

Photo: LEEDS MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES via BBC
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Scientists recreate voice of 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest