mummy
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Phenol was used after Ötzi's recovery to remove fungal growth from the surface of the mummy.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The distributor explained that the character depicted was a "living mummy" who was returned to her parents as a young adult, many years after having been kidnapped as a child.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
At some point, it was torn into strips and used to wrap a mummy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
During excavations conducted between November and December 2025, a team led by Núria Castellano uncovered a Roman-era mummy in Tomb 65 of Sector 22.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Do your mummy and daddy know you are out?”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
A new examination of royal mummies from Egypt's Middle Kingdom now suggests that at least some of these women were physically trained to handle such weapons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Dating to the Ptolemaic Period, it consists of four mummies and a mummified dog placed on top of one another.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
"It was really nice to have her in the middle to celebrate that hundred – two mummies," Wyatt-Hodge said.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
In a joint Instagram post the pair, who both play for Saracens, wrote: "Baby Packer due October 2026 and your mummies and big brother can't wait to meet you."
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
I love everything to do with Egypt—the pyramids, the Sphinx, mummies.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
A knock on the door, and there stands Heseltine resigning from Mrs. Thatcher's Cabinet, Marcos on the stump, Gaddafi playing cowboy on his tractor, mummied to the nose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bronwyn hovered anxiously around an old woman who was teetering half-conscious in a chair, mummied up in a blanket.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
They picked their way among the mummied figures.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
In passing the limestone cliffs we experience cold and wind; the mummied crocodile pits we pass, and stop at Aizril.
From My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt
Thus lifted into the night sky, her features could not be distinguished, and Marsyas believed that she was mummied, face and figure, in wrappings.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
Vocabulary lists containing mummy
Ancient Egypt - Introductory
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Ancient Egypt and Kush, Lessons 1–3
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