mummified
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While exploring the island's western coastline above Waihere Bay, Köhler spotted a three-dimensionally preserved, mummified fish fossil embedded in a steep section of cliff that was almost impossible to reach.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 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
Entering the nave, visitors passed by a chapel on the right-hand side that contained the mummified body of Francisco Pizarro, the romantic, thuggish Spaniard who conquered Peru in the sixteenth century.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
