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NEWS ABOUT: mummy

mummy stories: 6 news summaries

Archaeologist: 
Cleopatra, Mark Antony Tomb
Is Close

Artifacts unearthed in Egypt hint at lovers

Apr 19, 09 3:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - An eccentric Egyptian archaeologist believes he knows where Mark Antony and Cleopatra were buried, the AP reports. An excavation team has uncovered a mask fragment with an Antony-style cleft chin, coins bearing Cleopatra’s likeness, and 10 mummies from the same time period in the Toposiris Magna temple, hinting that... More »

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archaeology • Egypt • mummy • tomb • ancient Egypt • Cleopatra • masks • Mark Antony

 Macabre Tourists Flock 
 to Mummy Museum 

Mexican exhibit includes 56 fully preserved corpses

Mar 18, 09 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Mexican museum tells the story of the local mining industry with an unusual exhibit: 56 mummified corpses. The bodies, from as early as the mid-1800s, were removed from crypts that had been tightly sealed, allowing the bodies to dry intact. Elsewhere mummies might be considered freaky, but in Guanajuato,... More »

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mining • Mexico • museum • death • mummy • Guanajuato

 Egypt Unveils Ancient Mummy 


Feb 11, 09 7:01 PM CST
(AP) - Illuminated only by torches and camera lights, Egyptian laborers used crowbars and picks to lift the lid off a 2,600-year-old limestone sarcophagus, exposing—for the first time since it was sealed in antiquity—a perfectly preserved mummy. Wrapped in dark-stained canvas, the mummy is part of Egypt's discovery of... More »

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archeology • mummy • ancient Egypt

 1,300-Year-Old
 Mummy Found
 in Peru

Lima tomb pre-dates Incas

Aug 27, 08 4:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Archaeologists have discovered an ancient mummy in a tomb from a culture that flourished in Peru before the Incas. A complete female mummy, along with the remains of two other adults and a child, have been found in the Wari burial site in a residential district of Lima, Reuters reports.... More »

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Peru • mummy • tomb • Incas • Wari • burial site • Huaca Pucllana • Isabel Flores

MOVIE REVIEW

 Time to Wrap Up Mummy  

Franchise feels distinctly creaky

Aug 1, 08 11:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is more than a little musty. The third movie in the cycle features "more ancient corpses come to life amid digital effects laid on with a trowel," Jane Horwitz writes in the Washington Post, but the "tiresome and messy" result... More »

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movie review • mummy • Jet Li • action movie • Brendan Fraser

It's a Wrap: Tooth ID's Mummy Queen

Powerful Hatshepsut linked to dental root and DNA tests

Jun 27, 07 4:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - An ancient tooth and DNA evidence appear to prove that an obese mummy found in 1903 is one of Egypt's most powerful female rulers, Hatshepsut, the New York Times reports. The tooth, located in a box labeled with the queen's name, "fits exactly" with a broken root in the... More »

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archaeology • science • DNA • Egypt • mummy • Hatshepsut • DNA evidence

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