Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the seat of the person's essence, so it was always left inside a mummy. But the process of mummification was complicated and costly, so it was typically ...

A mummy, to put it bluntly ... which looked something like a crochet needle. The heart, believed to be the source of thought, was left inside the body. After the organs were removed, the body ...

the specimen at the heart of the controversy was brought to Poland in the early 1800s and is currently housed at the National Museum in Warsaw. In 2021, researchers from the Warsaw Mummy Project ...