• A team of French and Russian researchers recently found new snippets of smallpox DNA in 300-year-old mummies from Siberia, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine released Wednesday. (latimes.com)
  • Researchers from the Centre for Arctic Studies and Seoul National University are working on the finds. (ancient-origins.net)
  • The researchers are analysing the mummy mask texts in order to discover how biblical texts were copied and whether there were any alterations to the Gospel of Mark over time. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • A wide-ranging study in which researchers genetically analyzed the DNA of famous and controversial human remains from across North and South America has revealed fascinating new details about the ancient history of the vast region, as well as settling a long-running legal battle over a 10,600-year-old skeleton that is the world's oldest natural mummy. (newsweek.com)
  • In the study, published in the journal Science, an international team of researchers sequenced 15 prehistoric genomes-essentially, the complete set of genes present in an organism-extracted from remains found in locations as far apart as Alaska and Patagonia. (newsweek.com)
  • Twitter/Feed Mile Researchers estimate that the mummy was alive during the age of the Inca Empire more than 600 years ago. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • Researchers found that the mummy was between 600 and 800 years old and most likely lived during the age of the Inca Empire, given the details of his mummification, according to Al Jazeera . (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • Researchers found evidence of a tumor behind the mummy's eye socket. (livescience.com)
  • A mysterious mummy of an ancient Egypt woman, who may have been pregnant when she died, likely also had cancer, according to researchers. (livescience.com)
  • After recently opening the sarcophagus for the first time, researchers with the Warsaw Mummy Project in Poland, were surprised to find the remains of an unknown female inside. (livescience.com)
  • In April 2021, researchers from the project released a study claiming that CT scans of the Mysterious Lady had revealed the remains of a fetus inside her womb, making her the world's first known pregnant mummy . (livescience.com)
  • Now, the same research team has announced that the Mysterious Lady likely had nasopharynx cancer, which affects the mouth, nasal cavity and trachea, according to a blog post by researchers with the Warsaw Mummy Project. (livescience.com)
  • The researchers are excited about the potential discovery because it is rare to find how mummified people died. (livescience.com)
  • The find comes after eight years of excavations at the necropolis and is only one of many discoveries made by the researchers at Jaén University since the inception of the project. (artnet.com)
  • This is the third intact find among more than 70 tombs excavated since 1981," when researchers began their work at the Huaca Pucllana, a pyramid-like temple built on 2.5 ha of land between AD 100 and 600. (straitstimes.com)
  • In the tomb, researchers also found seven vessels with feline designs used to drink a matte tea concoction, 12 fabric bags and the remains of three guinea pigs. (straitstimes.com)
  • Archeologists also found a 3,000-year-old mummy in June, which researchers said was probably a religious sacrifice from the Manchay people. (insider.com)
  • Researchers also used plant matter found on his person to link Oetzi with a farming culture east of the Alps, fleshing out our understanding of Oetzi's world. (popsci.com)
  • In August of this year, a paper in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry announced researchers had found hair in Oetzi's clothes came from domesticated animals. (popsci.com)
  • Within her esophagus and stomach, they found over 100 musk melon seeds, which the researchers believe she "gulped down… in a great haste. (iflscience.com)
  • Now researchers have used state of the art technology to generate a much higher quality genome to learn more about his genetic history- and found some surprises. (metro.co.uk)
  • Now researchers from the Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts have taken the mummy for CT scanning in a bid to unravel its secrets. (the-sun.com)
  • Well-preserved specimens of Dracunculus medinensis were discovered in Egyptian mummies, while some researchers claim that the Old Testament's "fiery serpents" that descended upon the Israelites near the Red Sea were in fact guinea worms, as the parasite was endemic to the area in the past. (medscape.com)
  • By examining the mummy of bishop Peder Winstrup, researchers at Lund University shed some light on the medical and historical mysteries of everyday life in the 1600s. (lu.se)
  • By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius thousands of years ago. (lu.se)
  • In a couple of remaining teeth the researchers found traces of cavities, indicating that he had access to sweets. (lu.se)
  • The mummy of Peder Winstrup is one of the most well-preserved bodies from the 1600s. (lu.se)
  • The 74-year old Peder Winstrup also suffered from degenerative arthritis (osteoarthritis) in his knees and hip joints. (lu.se)
  • Increasingly, archeologists register spectacular finds when it comes to the ancient Egyptians, from millions of mummified dogs to the true face of King Tut . (artnet.com)
  • Archeologists have found a pre-Hispanic mummy surrounded by coca leaves on top of a hill in Peru's capital next to the practice field of a professional soccer club. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • nbsp;Two pre-Columbian mummies more than a thousand years old were found in a pre-Incan cemetery in a suburb of Lima, archeologists said on Thursday. (straitstimes.com)
  • Archeologists in Peru have found a perfectly preserved mummy wrapped in a funerary bundle on the outskirts of the capital city Lima. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Per AP, Bahamonde and the company's other archeologists think the mummies are likely relics from the Ichma or Ychsma culture. (insider.com)
  • Earlier this month in the country's capital, archeologists discovered a mummy with a full head of hair in a cemetery near a wealthy neighborhood. (insider.com)
  • Workers expanding gas lines accidentally dug up eight mummies in Lima, Peru. (insider.com)
  • Peruvian workers expanding gas lines were shocked when they dug up eight mummies on the side of the road in Lima . (insider.com)
  • Resting inside a brightly colored wooden sarcophagus, the mummy had been bound with linen stuck together with plaster. (livescience.com)
  • The mummy, the remains of a man named Hekashepes, was found in a sealed stone sarcophagus at the bottom of a 33-foot shaft. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • I put my head inside to see what was inside the sarcophagus: a beautiful mummy of a man completely covered in layers of gold," says Zahi Hawass, Egypt's famous (and controversial ) former antiquities minister, to the Associated Press ' Mohamed Wagdy. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • It dates to around the first century B.C. but was found sealed in the sarcophagus of a male priest. (livescience.com)
  • The 3,000-year-old mummy case features "many colorful decorations recalling religious symbols of ancient Egypt," the Egyptologist said. (livescience.com)
  • Egypt: Oldest known gospel found in mummy mask - what's really going on? (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • Pharaohs and nobility in Ancient Egypt might have been able to afford funerary masks made from gold but ordinary people usually could only afford mummy masks made from linen or papyrus. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • The following is a list of mummies that have been found in Egypt dating to the pharaonic dynasties. (wikipedia.org)
  • A team of Spanish and Egyptian archaeologists recently discovered the mummy of a bejeweled teenage girl in a 3,500-year-old tomb near Luxor, Egypt. (mannsdiamonds.com)
  • It's also worth noting that these mummies were not intentionally preserved, like later mummies in ancient Egypt. (npr.org)
  • The 3,800-year-old mummy of a revered Egyptian woman, Lady Sattjeni, has been discovered in Southeastern Egypt in spectacular condition. (artnet.com)
  • He reigned in the 12th century B.C. for approximately 66 years, which was an unusually long time for a pharaoh, as the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. (thevintagenews.com)
  • But as scientists scan the body, they find something they never expected lurking inside the coffin. (worldtruth.tv)
  • While the bishop was disinterred, scientists at Lund University took the opportunity to take a closer look at the 334-year-old remains. (worldtruth.tv)
  • But when scientists grabbed the opportunity to take a closer look, they were amazed by what they found. (worldtruth.tv)
  • Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old. (siberiantimes.com)
  • Scientists found that among the hundreds of early European people who lived at the same time as Otzi, and whose genomes (full set of DNA) are now available, Iceman has more ancestry in common with early Anatolian farmers than any of his European counterparts. (metro.co.uk)
  • The scientists examining the mummy will publish their findings later this year. (the-sun.com)
  • worldwide, in interrelation of these factors, anthropologists and fact, one third of the increase in new TB cases in other social scientists have made important contri- the last 5 years can be attributed to HIV (WHO, butions toward the control of TB. (cdc.gov)
  • Oxford professor Renee Friedman had been using a handheld infrared camera to examine tattoos on mummies from about 1,000 years later, in the Middle Kingdom period. (npr.org)
  • LIMA, Sep 6 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed a 1,000-year-old mummy in the latest discovery at an archaeological site located in a residential neighborhood of the country's capital, Lima. (yahoo.com)
  • That mummy was likely about 1,000 years old. (insider.com)
  • Well then Oetzi, the famous, 5,300 year old frozen mummy found in the Alps nearly two decades ago, has got you beat. (popsci.com)
  • Otzi the 5,300-year-old mummified body - discovered in melting ice in The Alps in 1991 - may have had dark skin, dark eyes and a balding head, analysis suggests. (metro.co.uk)
  • According to the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the teenager was only 15 or 16 years old when she died during the 17th dynasty (1580 B.C. to 1550 B.C.). The coffin containing the mummy had been carved from a single sycamore tree trunk, then coated with a whitewash and painted in red. (mannsdiamonds.com)
  • Because they discovered that the bishop had been sharing his coffin with a surprise guest for all those years. (worldtruth.tv)
  • The discovery is notable not only due to the fame of Lady Sattjeni but also due to the astonishingly good condition of the mummy and the coffin which is painted with stunning hieroglyphics. (artnet.com)
  • The CT scan also made an unexpected discovery: A 4-5-month-old foetus that had been well hidden in the coffin, below Winstrup's feet. (lu.se)
  • We can soon expect to see investigations of the textiles found in the coffin and additional examinations of the body, including taking tissue samples from the inner organs. (lu.se)
  • The extensive plant materials found in the coffin will also be examined. (lu.se)
  • Spanish archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Egyptian mummy in "very good condition" near Luxor, Egypt's antiquities ministry has announced. (livescience.com)
  • Archaeologists believe they may have found the oldest copy of a gospel ever known to exist, inscribed on a fragment of papyrus used to make an Ancient Egyptian mummy mask. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • CAIRO - 28 July 2022: Archaeologists and hospital staff in England work together as they perform CT scans on the head of an ancient Egyptian mummy, which was discovered in the 1820s and is 2,700 years old. (egypttoday.com)
  • Tissue samples from the lungs of mummy 2, a female adult determined to be less than 23 years old, had "iron inclusions" typical of blood from a hemorrhagic episode, the team reported. (latimes.com)
  • A cocoon with a mummy of an adult was covered with copper plates head to toe. (ancient-origins.net)
  • The length of the adult cocoon is 170 centimetres, which means the human remains inside - it is not yet known whether they are male or female - are likely to be around 165 cm tall, a considerable height 1,300 or so years ago. (ancient-origins.net)
  • A cocoon with a mummy of an adult on way from Zeleniy Yar burial site. (ancient-origins.net)
  • According to the Ministry of Culture, the pre-Hispanic mummy was a "mummified adult male individual, presumably from the eastern area of Puno," a region in the southern Peruvian Andes. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • X-rays taken in 2020 at Canterbury Crest University determined that the mummy was an adult female, but now a detailed CT scan has revealed a volume of new data about the mummy before her death. (egypttoday.com)
  • This is an adult individual in a sitting position with bent legs,' the expert said, noting that the mummy had long hair and a jaw that was nearly completely intact. (yahoo.com)
  • An archaeologist works at the pre-Inca religious complex 'Huaca Pucllana', in the residential district of Miraflores, in Lima, on Oct 24, 2013 - day in which archaeologist Gladys Paz informed that two pre-Columbian mummies of over a thousand years old, an adult and a child, were found at the site. (straitstimes.com)
  • The first signs of the tomb were found five days ago, but the process of unearthing the mummies of an adult and child took time. (straitstimes.com)
  • The maturation stage can last for up to 1 year, and, during this time, the adult male probably dies because only the female worm is recovered from symptomatic patients. (medscape.com)
  • Then they uncovered the rest of an approximately 3,000-year-old mummy in Lima, Peru. (kzyx.org)
  • Students Find 3000 Year-Old Peruvian Mummy Under Lima Landfill. (thestkittsnevisobserver.com)
  • Peruvian archaeologists discovered a mummy believed to be over a thousand years old with some of its skin and hair still intact at the archaeological complex of Cajamarquilla, near Lima. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • The tomb was uncovered at the southern enclosure wall of the Temple of Millions of Years," Mahmoud Afifi, head of the ancient Egyptian antiquities department of the ministry, said in a statement. (livescience.com)
  • The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has recently announced a number of large archaeological discoveries such as this via Facebook, likely to generate renewed tourist interest in the country - and there's more to come this year, according to Minister for Antiquities Khaled El-Enany. (sciencealert.com)
  • These included, the Lovelock skeletons, the Lagoa Santa remains, an Inca mummy and the oldest remains in Chilean Patagonia, as well as the 10,600-year-old skeleton-known as the "Spirit Cave mummy. (newsweek.com)
  • 4,000- to 5,000-year-old Chinchorro Chilean mummies (8). (cdc.gov)
  • The mummy is believed to be part of the coastal Chinchorro culture from what is now northern Chile and southern Peru. (archaeology.wiki)
  • A mummified corpse up to 800 years old was found in a delivery bag in Peru, authorities in the South American country have said. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • The uncovered mummy lived possibly as long as a millennium ago, at the beginning of the Ychsma culture that developed on the central coast of modern Peru during a period of social reorganization prior to the arrival of the Incas to the area, Ganoza said. (yahoo.com)
  • As Los Angeles Times reporter Thomas H. Maugh II reported in 2009, archaeologists found that ancient Egyptian mummies, some as much as 3,500 years old, had hardened artieries - suggesting that disease can stem from causes other than the modern lifestyle. (latimes.com)
  • The earliest radiocarbon date obtained for a Chinchorro mummy, a child from a site in the Camarones Valley about 60 miles south of Arica, is 5050 B.C. During the next 3,500 years Chinchorro mummification evolved through three distinct styles-the Black Mummy Technique, the Red Mummy Technique and the Mud coat-before the practice died out. (archaeology.wiki)
  • Dead female worms have also been found in Egyptian mummies older than 3000 years, and writings in ancient Sanskrit, Greek, and Hebrew refer to Dracunculus infection. (medscape.com)
  • But thanks to new technology, archaeologists have just discovered that they have some of the world's oldest tattoos - and what they say are the earliest known to contain figures. (npr.org)
  • Although Evans' discovery is not insignificant, there are many scholars in the archaeology world who disagree with dismantling ancient mummy masks to access the papyrus texts. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • A group of students have discovered a 7,000-year-old mummy during an archaeology field trip to Morro de Arica in northern Chile, a high cliff at the end of a coastal mountain range. (archaeology.wiki)
  • As per Archaeology in 2009, the body was found cocooned within the innermost of four lacquered coffins that were draped in a beautiful silk painting. (iflscience.com)
  • An Egyptian mummy known as M1 is being studied at the National Archaeology Museum of Lisbon in Portugal. (neatorama.com)
  • While investigating the complex of tombs, archaeologists found a mausoleum door that remains sealed - suggesting that the contents remain intact, untouched for millennia. (sciencealert.com)
  • All of the finds date to the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties of the Old Kingdom -approximately 2500 to 2100 B.C.E. In addition to the mummies, the excavation revealed statues, wall paintings, amulets, tools and pottery. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • At first, students from San Marcos University found remains of hair and a skull in a cotton bundle during an excavation. (kzyx.org)
  • This is one of the most important finds in more than three decades of excavation, because both mummies are intact," Ms Gladys Paz told AFP at the foot of the Huaca Pucllana tomb, an ancient religious complex in the Miraflores neighborhood. (straitstimes.com)
  • In most tists to hypothesize that M. tuberculosis evolved cases, a competent immune system limits the mul- from the closely related mycobacterium, M. bovis , tiplication of the tubercle bacilli, although some possibly coincident with the domestication of cattle bacilli remain dormant but viable, rendering a con- by humans approximately 15,000-20,000 years dition known as latent TB infection (LTBI) (CDC, ago (Daniel, 2000). (cdc.gov)
  • The mission will now study the tomb and its contents to find out more about its owner," Afifi said. (livescience.com)
  • Some of these mummies have been found to be remarkably intact, while others have been damaged from tomb robbers and environmental conditions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mummy:Secrets of the Tomb (New American 2011 ed. (wikipedia.org)
  • An archaeologist cleans a recently discovered tomb of an intact mummy of the Wari prehispanic culture in Lima's Huaca Pucllana ceremonial complex, at Miraflores district, on Oct 24, 2013. (straitstimes.com)
  • Ramesses' mummy was discovered in 1881 in the tomb of a high priest named Pinedjem II who lived almost 400 years after the great pharaoh's reign. (thevintagenews.com)
  • The mummy was likely moved from the pharaoh's original tomb in the Valley of the Kings, designated KV7, after looters desecrated the burial chamber and the priests of the time feared that someone might even try to ruin or steal the body. (thevintagenews.com)
  • The most popular videos have been around for a couple of years, but still show incredible findings and research about, for example, the mummy of a 17th century bishop, the world's fastest camera and a walk through a house from Pompeii. (lu.se)
  • One of Europe's most well-preserved 17th century mummies was discovered in Lund, Sweden. (lu.se)
  • We can now establish that Winstrup's mummy is one of the most well-preserved bodies from 17th century Europe with an information potential well in line with Ötzi the Iceman or Egyptian mummies. (lu.se)
  • The presence of the antibiotic bandage moss seems to contradict a hypothesis put forward in 2002 at the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano, Italy. (popsci.com)
  • It's the darkest skin tone that has been recorded in contemporary European individuals,' said anthropologist Albert Zink, the study co-author and head of the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies in Bolzano, Italy. (metro.co.uk)
  • The mummy is believed to be that of an adolescent male and is estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old, dating back to pre-Inca times. (worldcrunch.com)
  • The eight burial offerings from the pre-Inca Ychsma culture, found by city workers. (insider.com)
  • A report from the organization also shows that attempted book bans and restrictions at school and public libraries reached a record high last year , with more than 1,200 challenges compiled by the association - nearly double the then-record total from 2021. (worldcrunch.com)
  • As of 2021, 29.5 million people aged 12 and older had an alcohol use disorder in the past year. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The remains were initially thought to be between 1,500 and 2,000 years old, but during the 1990s, new textile and hair testing dated the bones to 10,600 years old. (newsweek.com)
  • The man, 26-year-old Julio Cesar Bermejo, told police that the mummy was his "spiritual girlfriend" and that he had named her "Juanita," according to BBC . (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • When asked how he came into possession of Juanita, Bermejo stated that the mummy had been in the family for 30 years. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • We also went to a museum to see the mummy of Juanita. (travelblog.org)
  • Peruvian Ministry of Culture Police found the mummy curled up in a fetal position in the man's bag. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • Peruvian Ministry of Culture Peru's Ministry of Culture is currently in possession of the mummy, which is likely 600 to 800 years old. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • The Ministry of Culture said that they took possession of the mummy "with the aim of protecting and preserving [Peruvian] heritage. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • After reading about the Peruvian man who was found with a mummy in a cooler bag, take a look at nine of the most fascinating mummies ever found . (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • Peruvian authorities have previously reported finding cocaine in brick-shaped packages with various and strange symbols, but never with one of the flag of Nazi Germany. (nbclosangeles.com)
  • Over years of expanding gas lines, Peruvian workers have found about 2,000 ancient artifacts. (insider.com)
  • WHO designated 2020 as the "International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife" and while this designation came prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot think of a better time to honour and recognize nurses for their commitment to the profession. (who.int)
  • The big news is that we are putting the knowledge of the iceman into a wider context," said Klaus Oeggl, professor of archeobotany at the University of Innsbruck in Germany, "Up to now, everything was focused on the mummy and the situation at the top of the mountain. (popsci.com)
  • Initial studies of the corpse, also called the Iceman, revealed genetic traces of eastern European steppe herders from 4,900 years ago. (metro.co.uk)
  • However, some experts have questioned whether the mummy was even pregnant at all and have suggested that the fossilized fetus may actually be a warped embalming pack, which was placed in the body to replace removed organs during the mummification process. (livescience.com)
  • Astonishingly, hidden in the herbs at the bishop's feet was the body of a human fetus, estimated to have been between five and six months old. (worldtruth.tv)
  • Here's a guy getting so excited about finding a first-century manuscript of a first-century text that he's totally oblivious to the destruction of archaeological material it entails," wrote Paul Barford, an English archaeologist living in Warsaw in his blog about private artefact collecting and heritage issues . (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • The new finds come on the heels of several other Egyptian archaeological discoveries announced in recent weeks, including new scans of the 2,300-year-old "Golden Boy" mummy and a cache of 2,500-year-old mummified crocodiles . (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Bored Panda has compiled a list of various reconstructions from archaeological finds that give us a fascinating glimpse of the past. (boredpanda.com)
  • Fun fact the oldest know tree was cut down after a scientist got his borer stuck and a park ranger helped him cut it down, it was approximately 5,000 years old. (reddit.com)
  • The discovery provided a rare look at a surprisingly vast network of traveling and trade, operating as far back as 5,000 years ago. (listverse.com)
  • Only 1 case in Brazil was diagnosed by our traveled outside Brazil in the last 5 years. (cdc.gov)
  • It seemed that most of the burials were individual and involved only one body, but one grave contained five frozen mummies - two children and three adults - which appeared to have been buried shortly after death. (latimes.com)
  • Smallpox began causing illness and death more than a thousand years ago. (cdc.gov)
  • Traces of smallpox pustules found on the head of a 3,000-year-old mummy of the Pharaoh Ramses V. By G. Elliot Smith, Public Domain. (cdc.gov)
  • The new finding isn't the first study of mummies to offer insight into disease. (latimes.com)
  • Hawass is especially interested in the variety of statues uncovered during the dig, as they offer insight into art in the Old Kingdom, according to CNN. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Painted wooden sarcophagi of snakes containing mummies, as well as two wooden crocodile sarcophagi, were also recovered, and hundreds of faience amulets dedicated to various gods. (sciencealert.com)
  • And the mummy was likely part of an offering to the temple alongside the corn, coca leaves and seeds the mummy was buried with. (kzyx.org)
  • The remains were found alongside ceramic vessels, textiles and other objects in the Huaca Pucllana site in the middle of Lima's affluent Miraflores district, the head of the team of archaeologists, Mirella Ganoza, told Reuters on Wednesday. (yahoo.com)
  • Darren won the second series of Strictly with former EastEnders star Jill Halfpenny in 2004, while Lilia took home the glitterball alongside Darren Gough the following year - the former English cricketer was the first male celebrity to win the title. (hellomagazine.com)
  • A historic letter dated 1903 - apparently penned by a former owner - was stored alongside the mummy and gives a story about its provenance. (the-sun.com)
  • Also found in the funerary shaft were a pair of well preserved leather sandals and a pair of leather balls tied together with a string. (mannsdiamonds.com)
  • At the time when the document was officially issued, the legendary pharaoh had been dead for more than 3,000 years. (thevintagenews.com)
  • Per Daily Mail , Bermejo's father paid around $500 for the mummy decades ago, and Bermejo kept it in a box next to his TV. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • Mummies and ancient offerings have already been found in the Huaca Pucllana site, and experts see the site as a Pandora's Box with much more to be found. (yahoo.com)
  • The grave was found intact with offerings and a sacrificed companion, Paz said in reference to the mummified child. (straitstimes.com)
  • A 'tube of unknown substance' was found trapped inside the mummy's left nostril. (egypttoday.com)
  • The new claims are based on deformities found in the mummy's skull, but the findings have not yet been peer reviewed or confirmed by chemical tests. (livescience.com)
  • In recent years, human remains have sewn together colorful new facts, ripped up old beliefs, and dangled tantalizing new riddles for experts to solve. (listverse.com)
  • You find thousands of videos on the Lund University YouTube channel about research, events and exciting findings. (lu.se)
  • Alexander Gusev, head of the expedition, senior researcher of the Centre for the Arctic Studies, said: "The mummified remains were found lying next to each other, buried strictly along a North to South line, with their feet turned to the river. (ancient-origins.net)
  • Today we are able to get DNA from remains that have been deposited, for thousands of years, in settings that make DNA preservation unlikely. (newsweek.com)
  • The 10,400-year-old Lagoa Santa remains-located in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais-were discovered by Danish explorer Peter W. Lund in the 19th century. (newsweek.com)
  • The Chinchorro mummies are therefore the oldest examples of artificially mummified human remains. (archaeology.wiki)
  • When the plane with Ramesses' remains arrived in Paris, the mummy was greeted by a military procession and received full military honors. (thevintagenews.com)
  • To find the answers, archaeologists and osteologists have previously grouped and dated excavated objects and skeletal remains from various prehistoric cultures. (lu.se)
  • As you can see, the debate is very complex and, at the moment, there are still archeological finds, human remains with typical lesion of syphilis and treponematosis, that will help us to find a definitive solution. (cdc.gov)
  • Settled on the Nile River, just over 100 miles south of the Mediterranean Sea, Cairo is an ancient city, founded in 969 AD. (discovery.com)
  • Full of history from the Pyramids in Giza to the roman ruins of Old Cairo, this city is beautiful. (discovery.com)
  • Old Cairo is where the Roman empire settled along the Nile. (discovery.com)
  • Due to several factors, including the humidity of the room in which Ramesses' mummy was kept at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the condition of the mummy began to deteriorate. (thevintagenews.com)
  • Upon discovering the mummy, authorities arrested Bermejo for possible crimes against Peru's cultural heritage. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • We have every reason to believe that the original writings and their earliest copies would have been in circulation for a hundred years in most cases - in some cases much longer, even 200 years," Evans said. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • It was during this search that authorities made a startling discovery: one of the men had a centuries-old mummy in his cooler bag, the same bag he had previously used to deliver food to people in the area. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • The day authorities caught Bermejo, he had placed the mummy into his delivery bag to show her off to his friends, BBC reported. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • Authorities found the mummy wrapped in bandages and in a fetal position, both of which were typical of pre-Hispanic burial practices in the area. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • A demonstration in Mexico City turned violent after thousands took to the streets demanding that authorities find 43 missing college students. (nbcnews.com)
  • The Israeli authorities say the gunman was neutralized at the scene, and it follows a day after Israeli raids in Jenin killed nine people, the deadliest day for Palestinians in the West Bank in more than a year. (cnn.com)
  • Chinchorro mummies were elaborately prepared by removing the internal organs and replacing them with vegetable fibers or animal hair. (archaeology.wiki)
  • Preliminary investigations reveal a sensational find: the internal organs are still in place. (lu.se)
  • Infrared imaging of a female predynastic mummy reveal a tattooed "S" pattern and a marking that Egyptologists believe shows an item used in rituals. (npr.org)
  • Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago. (siberiantimes.com)
  • Genes presenting an increased risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes were also found in the Iceman's genome, but these factors probably did not come into play because of his healthy lifestyle. (metro.co.uk)
  • But they misinterpreted the results and failed to spot signs on a self-diagnostic monitor indicating "abnormal results for a female 18 to 39 years old. (whatsnew2day.com)
  • The two well-preserved mummies from Egypt's Gebelein site - a male and a female - have been in the British Museum's collection for more than 100 years. (npr.org)
  • Friedman says other, later female Egyptian mummies with tattoos had been discovered, and a set of figurines with drawings on them did suggest to Egyptologists that tattoos likely existed at the time for women. (npr.org)
  • About a year after the initial infection, the pregnant female worm looks for exit points from the body, usually through legs or feet, ready to release new larvae. (medscape.com)
  • Further testing revealed that the mummy was roughly 45 years old at the time of his death and stood just under five feet tall. (allthatsinteresting.com)
  • There still are an estimated 8-10 million new cases of TB each year worldwide, causing roughly 3 million deaths. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Her wrinkled body looks more like a fresh cadaver on a mortuary table than an ancient mummy from an ancient dynasty. (iflscience.com)
  • Framed within the context of a high resolution R-Z2123 phylogeny, the ancestry of the first Hungarian royal dynasty traces to the region centering near Northern Afghanistan about 4500 years ago and identifies the Bashkirs as their closest kin, with a separation date between the two populations at the beginning of the first millennium CE. (bvsalud.org)
  • I find it quite interesting that right in the heart of Miraflores, in the middle of the city, surrounded by modern buildings and constructions, an important site is still preserved, the Huaca Pucllana ceremonial center,' said Ganoza. (yahoo.com)