mummified
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The Academy Museum wanted the original mummified Mrs. Bates head from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” but there was one problem: She was too fragile to travel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
As a result, the specimen appears as a three dimensional mummified fossil, frozen in its final position with one arm tucked beneath its body.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
The 43-year-old still appreciates the series—and for more than the thrill of learning how investigators identified a mummified pregnant woman hidden in a barrel on Long Island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
He was mummified and buried in Luxor's Valley of the Kings inside three nested coffins, the smallest weighing 110kg, all placed within four gilded shrines like matryoshka dolls.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025
Or, rather, they passed by a chapel that was thought to contain the conqueror’s mummified body; the actual remains turned up years later, stashed inside two metal boxes beneath the main altar.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
