Unusual mummy collection gets scrutiny
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People who lived in the mining town of Guanajuato, Mexico, more than a century ago left behind a scientific mother lode: their own accidentally mummified bodies.
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There&#39;s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago.
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Egypt announced on Tuesday the discovery of the long-lost mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, its most famous female pharaoh, billed as the most important find since the discovery of King Tutankhamun&#39;s tomb.
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Real and mythological creatures mingle in the strange looking-glass world of two new museum exhibitions.
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By Urry, James  AMIRIA HENARE, Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xix + 323. ISBN 0- 521-83591-7. Pounds 48.00, $80.00 (hardback).
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A single tooth and some DNA clues appear to have âpositively identifiedâ the mummy of Hatshepsut, a great queen of ancient Egypt, who reigned in the 15th century B.C.
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American museums are returning some of the world's great antiquities to their original homes. Should they? A new debate over who owns the past is underway.
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Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found.
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A recent chemical analysis of preserved mummies has revealed that when it came to mummification, ancient Egyptians treated animals every bit as well as humans.
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Excavators discovered 20 gilded mummies in the Bahariya oasis in western Egypt, the government's council of antiquities said Tuesday.
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Archaeologists identify long-lost mummy of Egypt's most famous female pharaoh.
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By testing the DNA of the mummy of Tutankhamun, Egypt will attempt to learn what killed the teenaged pharoah who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. Talk about a cold case.
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Like bringing to life a naked mannequin, scientists are using genetic and physical evidence found in fossils to clothe the skeletal remains of our closest hominid relatives, the Neanderthals.
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Egypt is to conduct tests on the mummy of Tutankhamen in a bid to solve the mystery over the cause of his death.
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The move was part of a long-delayed effort to allow archaeologists to begin studying a wealth of tombs in the area.
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Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a 3,500-year-old corpse as female pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut, scientists are still analyzing the DNA to try to back up the claim aired on TV.
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A post-mortem reveals the remains of a baby found on the M25 are part of a medical exhibit.