mummified

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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

Highlights include the larger-than-life granite kneeling statue of Queen Hatshepsut from her terraced temple at Deir el-Bahri and a mummified crocodile that measures over eight feet long.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 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

The body is then mummified due to a lack of moisture and oxygen in the glacier.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

I didn’t see any mummified baby elephants down there.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston