mummified

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As a result, the specimen appears as a three dimensional mummified fossil, frozen in its final position with one arm tucked beneath its body.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

The 43-year-old still appreciates the series—and for more than the thrill of learning how investigators identified a mummified pregnant woman hidden in a barrel on Long Island.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

He was mummified and buried in Luxor's Valley of the Kings inside three nested coffins, the smallest weighing 110kg, all placed within four gilded shrines like matryoshka dolls.

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

The body is then mummified due to a lack of moisture and oxygen in the glacier.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

The trees looked as if they had been mummified.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu