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This past Sunday, the people attending the American College of Cardiology meeting in San Francisco got to hear a team of researchers talking about how the arteries of ancient mummies were just as clogged as the ones of modern humans.
As the specialists who took the time to investigate this issue explain, this means... |
11 March 2013
08:22 GMT |
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A group of researchers recently argued that two bod mummies found in Scotland do not, in fact, belong to a pair of distinct individuals. The group was able to determine that the bones making up the mummies came from 6 different people, and that they were pieced together before being buried.
The team says that detai... |
10 July 2012
08:42 GMT |
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The oldest known case of prostate cancer was discovered in the skeleton of a Scythian king who lived in Russia some 2,700 years ago. In a recent investigation, researchers discovered the second-oldest known case of the cancer, in a 2,250-year-old mummy from Egypt.
According to a paper published in the latest issue ... |
28 October 2011
06:03 GMT |
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A team of forensics artists have recently finished reconstructing the face of an ancient mummy, that was discovered buried in ice in the Italian Alps. The Iceman, which is believed to have lived some 5,300 years ago, has been named Ötzi.Currently, he resided in the South Tyrol Museum of Archeology, where visitor... |
10 March 2011
06:04 GMT |
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About 400 years after King Henry IV of France died, authorities are finally laying his remains to rest. And by that we mean of course his head, which has apparently been making the rounds in private collections of antiquities enthusiasts for centuries. Back in 1793, as the revolution swept France, revolutionaries sym... |
15 December 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Bees are generally feared for their stings, which are known to be very painful. Most animals, including humans, know this, and generally keep clear of the insects. Bees are more than willing to lay down their own lives for the sake of their queen, and there is little other species can do about this, except for Japane... |
4 January 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Pharaohs and their priests were praised in Ancient Egypt as something close to gods. Their status was highly privileged, and they benefited from all spoils that their lands could produce, while others were starving and dying. But it would seem that, in spite of having the best possible conditions to live as long as p... |
18 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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The Ancient Egyptian mummy known as Irtyersenu caused quite a stir in England in 1825, when Dr. Augustus Bozzi Granville, the expert who performed the first autopsy on the remains, concluded that the woman had died of ovarian cancer. The finds were presented to the Royal Society of London, and caused quite a bit of e... |
30 September 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Using state-of-the-art forensics science, a police sketch artist who works with the Maryland Department of Justice and the State Police Missing Persons Unit has reconstructed the face of the University of Chicago-owned mummy of the ancient Thebes temple singer Meresamun. A second reconstruction has been done by Chica... |
24 June 2009
05:45 GMT |
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The Lahun pyramid was first discovered and excavated about a century ago, but, thus far, the mud-brick-built structure has revealed little significant secrets. On Sunday, however, the head of the excavations at the 4,000-year-old site announced that a cache of mummies had been discovered, each neatly buried in its li... |
27 April 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Some temples and museums in Japan boast the ownership of several of the most rare relics in the world, namely mummies of demons, imp, raiju, Tengu, Kappa, and other mythical creatures. In fact, some institutions in the northern parts of the country even host “living mummies” of human origin, as in people ... |
10 March 2009
14:01 GMT |
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The tombs of the pharaohs that were buried at Saqqara, an Egyptian archaeological site that never seizes to amaze archaeologists, has recently revealed other surprises, when a team of Japanese investigators has found four wooden sarcophagi, which date back more than 3,300 years, Egyptian authorities have announced on... |
26 February 2009
09:59 GMT |
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The Saqqara necropolis, situated south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo, dates back to the 6th Dynasty, which reigned over the areas some 4,300 years ago. A vast stretch of land was covered with temples, tombs and pyramids, in what would today look like an over-sized and gigantic graveyard. Over the years, it has yie... |
10 February 2009
08:23 GMT |
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