mummy
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The Daily Star says a 2,700-year-old mummy has gone missing from a museum.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"But I remember leaving and feeling really icky. Like, 'Ohhh, that was awful. Where's my mummy?'"
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Phenol was used after Ötzi's recovery to remove fungal growth from the surface of the mummy.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The newly identified yeasts came from skin samples, meltwater inside the mummy, and stomach content samples.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
On a three-legged stool sat the Oracle—a shriveled female mummy in a tie-dyed dress.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
Two museums in Glasgow have removed the remains of Egyptian mummies from display over ethical concerns.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Excavations uncovered a funerary complex consisting of three limestone burial chambers containing Roman-era mummies and decorated wooden sarcophagi.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 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
Many of the child mummies exhibit signs of severe anemia, surprising in people who lived on seafood.
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
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
Thus lifted into the night sky, her features could not be distinguished, and Marsyas believed that she was mummied, face and figure, in wrappings.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
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Ancient Egypt - Introductory
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