Tooth May Have Solved Mummy Mystery
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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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Big game hunters may be off the hook in the latest twist of a prehistoric whodunit that tries to explain why bison populations sharply crashed thousands of years ago.
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A fossilized jaw found in an Alberta gravel pit may have cleared up a mystery for researchers wondering how brown bears originally made it across North America.
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Egypt plans to X-ray the mummy of Tutankhamun to find out what killed the king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago and died while only a teenager.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.
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Researchers employ modern technology in hopes of solving a dusty mystery: Was the famous Pharaoh murdered? The examination begins a process aimed at restoring and preserving the boy king's blackened remains.
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Archaeologists hailed one of the most important finds in Egyptian history on Wednesday after a broken tooth identified the 3,500-year-old mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh.
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New analysis of bones from an infamous dinosaur long believed to have eaten its own young show that the animal may have been given an undeserved reputation.
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Geologists unveiled a fossil discovery on Tuesday they believe will help resolve a long-standing mystery over whether dinosaurs ever roamed to what is now Canada's Pacific coast.
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Archaeologists have discovered the mummified remains of a doctor they believe lived more than 4,000 years ago and was buried along with metal surgical tools.
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Big evolutionary insights sometimes come in little packages. Witness the startling discovery, in a cave on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, of the partial skeleton of a half-size Homo species that
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Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist.
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SYDNEY - The discovery of a skeleton of a female barely one metre tall who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18000 years ago could force a reassessment of the origins of humanity, scientists in Australia said yesterday.
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A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah &#151; possibly the most significant find since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, experts said Wednesday.
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Archaeologists believe a settlement is linked by a road and perhaps by belief to the mysterious megalithic monument
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Washington - The face of a man who died and was mummified in Egypt 3 000 years ago has been modelled, using special CAT scans and without unwrapping his bandages, Italian researchers said on Wednesday.
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WORK by a British scientist may show that humans were not responsible for the bison almost becoming extinct in the 19th century, it was disclosed yesterday.