Researchers Unearth Partial Remains of Different Cats Inside a Mummified Feline, Virtual Images Reveal Mysterious Contents ...

Animal mummies are a big part of that pay dirt. "They're really manifestations of daily life," says Egyptologist Salima Ikram. "Pets, food, death, religion. They cover everything the Egyptians ...

Archaeologists Discover Two Lion Cub Mummies Inside a Special Tomb for Cat Burials in Egypt Two mummified lion cubs, about 2,600 years old, were discovered in a tomb full of cat statues and mummies at ...

A landfall in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos has unearthed a cemetery of animal mummies that archaeologists hope could give clues to new religious cults in the Ptolemaic period, officials ...

Discover the fascinating history of cat domestication and genetic analysis results, revealing how ancient Egyptians played a ...

For Ikram, one of the world’s preeminent scholars in the field of mummification with a specialization in archaeozoology, the study of animal mummies offers deep insights into ancient Egyptian ...

Scanning Ancient Animal Mummies A collection of ancient Egyptian animal mummies from the Brooklyn Museum is subjected to the powerful X-rays of a CT scanner in order to peer through the centuries-old ...

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University of Manchester team helps to uncover the story behind 70 million animal mummies A team from Manchester Museum and The University of Manchester features on tonight’s BBC Horizon programme ...

Mystery mummies from Central Asia have a surprising ... a population that mixed animal herding with plant cultivation. Their boat-shaped coffins were unlike any others in the region.

Highly detailed tattoos on Peruvian mummies were made with “special effort” around 1,200 years ago, likely using cactus needles or sharpened animal bones, archaeologists say. Researchers used ...