Egyptians mummified their dead cats as lovingly as their kin!
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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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Swarms of pink locusts swept through the Egyptian capital on Wednesday, evoking the biblical description of the plagues which struck in the time of Moses.
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Presentata la sensazionale scoperta degli archeologi. Ricostruita al Cairo la sua identitÃ  grazie a una Tac. In un dente la prova inconfutabile                                            "Ecco la mummia di Hatshepsut" svelato il mistero della faraona
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So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion being drawn by academics at Britain's University of Newcastle from a Roman denarius coin which depicts the celebrated queen of Egypt as a sharp-nosed, thin-lipped woman with a protruding chin.
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Egyptologists say they have identified the 3,000-year-old mummy of Egypt's most famous female ruler.
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A funeral procession for a couple and their two daughters slain last week drew hundreds of mourners Monday, and some in the crowd blamed the deaths on religious tensions in the Coptic Christian family's native Egypt.
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Almost as much as the Spanish Steps or the Trevi Fountain, cats belong to the historic and cultural heritage of Rome, and Romans repay the compliment by taking good care of them.
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Archaeologists have discovered more than 40 mummified dogs in a thousand-year-old Peruvian cemetery, yielding vital clues about the ancient culture that revered them.
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The ancient Egyptians put as much care into mummifying their animals as they did to their kings and relatives, according to a study published in the British scientific journal Nature.
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"But I have always thought of them as the queen and her maid"  Archaeologists exhumed the body of a Viking queen on Monday, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1,200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife. via Arab Times
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Egypt's $5 million DNA lab, funded by the Discovery Channel, is the centerpiece of an ambitious plan to identify mummies and re-examine the royal mummy collection.
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EZBET SIDI OMAR, Egypt  - When Attia Abdel-Hamid Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in Egypt's Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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A team of researchers briefly removed King Tut's mummy from its tomb Wednesday and laid bare his bones for a CT scan that could solve an enduring mystery: Was it murder or natural causes that killed Egypt's boy pharaoh 3,000 years ago?
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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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MUMBAI, India -- For centuries, the Zoroastrian dead have been wrapped in white muslin and left at a leafy funeral ground on downtown Mumbai's Malabar Hill, where they are devoured by vultures. Only then, according to the tenets of the ancient religion, can the soul be freed.
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A 1,000-year-old stone carving that spent years marking the grave of a couple&#39;s pet cat was sold at auction in London Friday for more than $380,000.
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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.