mummy

She is one of the 2,000-year-old "Faces of Fayum", startlingly realistic funerary -- or mummy -- portraits painted after Egypt became part of the Roman empire.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

"But I remember leaving and feeling really icky. Like, 'Ohhh, that was awful. Where's my mummy?'"

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

"I remember my mummy taking us over to her sister's in Liverpool and I think I was probably about 10 or 11 at the time," she recalled.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

The team also made an unexpected discovery: cold-adapted yeast species that likely came from the glacier and have remained on the mummy into the present day.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Where the mummy had been was a woman with floor-length black hair and a skeletal, green-tinged face — a banshee.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

"Egypt and Rome, the Faces of Fayum", opening Wednesday at Rome's Ara Pacis museum, also includes mummies, masks, shrouds, jewellery, marble busts and statuary.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 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

Some specimens discovered over the last century retained detailed skin impressions and other soft tissue features, earning the nickname "dinosaur mummies."

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

Coffins holding centuries-old mummies at the museum were also destroyed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

One day she simply could not stand the rising tension as night drew near, and she decided to tell Jean about the mummies.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

And after the place of dead matter and mummied husks in gloom, where we had been wandering, this burst of leaves in full light was a return to life.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

In the Egyptian quarter of the British Museum, standing humbly in a glass case between two mummied Pharaohs, is a little group of farm utensils.

From The Romance of the Reaper by Herbert Newton Casson