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Mystery of Britain’s ‘Franken-mummies’
It is one of Britain’s most intriguing archeological mysteries. When two almost perfectly preserved 3,000-year-old human skeletons were dug up on a remote Scottish island, they were the first evidence that ancient Britons preserved their
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The mummy unmasked: Medical scans give amazing images of ancient Egyptians
The patient’s age is 3,000 and as for their medical history, that is literally shrouded in mystery. This is an Egyptian mummy having a CT scan to unlock the secrets of its civilisation. Expert Dr
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Last fragments from ‘magical’ Egyptian ‘Book of the Dead’ from 1420 BC found – after century-long search by archaeologists
The last missing pages from a supposedly 'magical' Book of the Dead from an Egyptian priest, Amenhotep, have been found after a century-long search - in a museum in Queensland. British Museum Egyptologist Dr John
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