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[muhm-ee] / ˈmʌm i /


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"I remember my mummy taking us over to her sister's in Liverpool and I think I was probably about 10 or 11 at the time," she recalled.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

The team also made an unexpected discovery: cold-adapted yeast species that likely came from the glacier and have remained on the mummy into the present day.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

According to Maixner, the results show that the mummy is "not a static relic, but a dynamic biological system."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

The distributor explained that the character depicted was a "living mummy" who was returned to her parents as a young adult, many years after having been kidnapped as a child.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Without a mummy and sarcophagus, there is no Great Tomb Project at all.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

"It was really nice to have her in the middle to celebrate that hundred – two mummies," Wyatt-Hodge said.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Coffins holding centuries-old mummies at the museum were also destroyed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

Across all samples, scientists identified 81 distinct VOCs that offer clues about the materials used during the embalming process and the time periods in which the mummies were prepared.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026

The ferocity of the civil war was exacerbated by the epidemic’s impact on a peculiarly Andean institution: royal mummies.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

In the coal measures are found the mummied remains of these prehistoric conifers.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

In the entrance of one of the passages we found a sculptured idol, which excited us with the hope of discovering some altar or sepulchre, or perhaps mummied figures.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens




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