mummy

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Though concentrated, it’s situated among newly refreshed spaces containing lavishly ornamented mummy coffins, carved grave stelae, canopic jars, tomb wall reliefs and the preserved body of a woman named Gautseshenu.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In most cases the “mummy portraits”—as the paintings are called—came to be pried or detached from the full mummy by excavators, archaeologists or thieves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

They mapped a compact "mummy zone" within these rock layers, which represent stacked river sands.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025

"My mummy died on 24 March 2020, and the Chair has made it clear that had a lockdown been a week earlier, people like my mummy would have been saved."

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

At first George didn’t understand that Phoebe was talking about the mummy.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis