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An "alien" corpse presented to Congress in Mexico last September

Peruvian 'alien mummies' confirmed to be inhuman

The body of "Stoneman Willie", a jailed thief that died in a Pennsylvania prison in 1895 and was accidentally mummified by undertakers, lies on display at the local funeral home that has been his resting place for 128 years in Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 1, 2023

Pennsylvania mummy 'Stoneman Willie' to receive proper burial after 128 years

An archaeologist works on a site where a 1,000-year-old mummy was unearthed, at a residential neighbourhood, in Lima, Peru September 6, 2023.

Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru residential neighborhood

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich Attachments 12:39 PM (56 minutes ago) to Jerusalem, me, Seth Canopic jar of Senetnay, “Wet Nurse of the King” (Amenhotep II), which originally contained Senetnay’s mummified lungs.

Care to smell a mummy? This Denmark museum will let you

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

A honey bee

Mummified bees from time of King Solomon found off coast of Portugal

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The remains of a mummy, believed to be from the Manchay culture which developed in the valleys of Lima between 1,500 and 1,000 BCE, are pictured at the excavation site of a pre-Hispanic burial, in Lima, Peru June 14, 2023.

Archaeologists in Peru find 3,000 year-old mummy in Lima

By REUTERS

The Sudan National Museum at Khartoum, Sudan, was founded in 1971. The collection showcases archaeology downstairs and early Christian frescoes upstairs.

Sudan fighters take over Khartoum museum, director says

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A sarcophagus found at the newly discovered site where two embalming workshops for humans and animals along with two tombs and a collection of artefacts were also found, near Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, in Giza, Egypt May 27, 2023

Egypt unearths mummification workshops, tombs in ancient burial ground

By REUTERS

Machu Picchu

Archaeologists in Peru find adolescent mummy wrapped in bundle

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Animal coffin EA36167, surmounted by a lizard figure. Neutron imaging shows a lizard skull (inset).

Mysterious contents of sealed Egyptian coffins revealed after 2,000 years

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

SKeleton in a fetal position

Ancient mummy found in fetal position inside cooler bag in Peru

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Egyptian mummy.

Ancient Egypt's mummification ingredients came from far-flung locales

By REUTERS

A 2,500-year old coffin that may contain a mummy lies at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia March 27, 2018

Egyptian mummy covered in golden foliage could be the oldest ever discovered

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

'Golden boy’ mummy

2,300-year-old teenage 'golden boy' mummy undergoes CT scan

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Overview of the crocodiles during excavation.

Uniquely mummified crocodiles discovered in Egypt - study

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Mummy portrait found in Fayoum, Egypt.

Rare mummy portraits discovered in Egypt

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A cameraman films the only known example of a pregnant Egyptian mummy, displayed at an exhibition in National Museum in Warsaw, Poland May 4, 2021

A taste for gold: Ancient Egyptian mummies found with gold tongues

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A cameraman films the only known example of a pregnant Egyptian mummy, displayed at an exhibition in National Museum in Warsaw, Poland May 4, 2021

Ancient Egyptians were mummified for 'guidance to divinity,' not preservation

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF