mummy
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The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology oversees the preservation of the mummy and continuously monitors its condition.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
At some point, it was torn into strips and used to wrap a mummy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Archaeologists working at the ancient Egyptian site of Oxyrhynchus have made a remarkable discovery: a papyrus containing a passage from Homer's Iliad was found inside a Roman-era mummy dating back about 1,600 years.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
It is understood this is not the Egyptian mummy head.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
I braced myself, but the mummy didn’t move.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
Scientists still do not completely understand how glacial mummies remain preserved over such long periods.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
"It was really nice to have her in the middle to celebrate that hundred – two mummies," Wyatt-Hodge said.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
In a joint Instagram post the pair, who both play for Saracens, wrote: "Baby Packer due October 2026 and your mummies and big brother can't wait to meet you."
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
Sampling the air around mummies provides a fast, non destructive method for examining fragile remains while preserving their physical condition.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
Our fingers were long and bony like vampires from some Hollywood horror movie, the skin on our faces cracked and drawn back like mummies.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
A knock on the door, and there stands Heseltine resigning from Mrs. Thatcher's Cabinet, Marcos on the stump, Gaddafi playing cowboy on his tractor, mummied to the nose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bronwyn hovered anxiously around an old woman who was teetering half-conscious in a chair, mummied up in a blanket.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
They picked their way among the mummied figures.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
To say that it is "thirsty" is to mock with vain imagery that dead and mummied land on the borders of the Black Lava.
From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote
And after the place of dead matter and mummied husks in gloom, where we had been wandering, this burst of leaves in full light was a return to life.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
Vocabulary lists containing mummy
Ancient Egypt - Introductory
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Ancient Egypt and Kush, Lessons 1–3
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