mummy
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As a result, the mummy provides an unusual window into the microbial communities that once inhabited the human body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
According to Maixner, the results show that the mummy is "not a static relic, but a dynamic biological system."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
At some point, it was torn into strips and used to wrap a mummy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Hull said the last words which passed between them were "see you after work mummy", to which she replied: "See you after work, love you."
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
On Egyptian Museum day, Auggie’s face had been covered with mummy gauze.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
Coffins holding centuries-old mummies at the museum were also destroyed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
Across all samples, scientists identified 81 distinct VOCs that offer clues about the materials used during the embalming process and the time periods in which the mummies were prepared.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
Self professed Traitors superfan Aideen Dunn said the Newry traitor is "doing us mummies proud".
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026
Wrapped up like white mummies, we new astronauts were given our first peek at the Gemini spacecraft being built at the McDonnell plant in St. Louis.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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
They picked their way among the mummied figures.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
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
Finally a limp body, ice-sheeted, dripping with water, yet clinging with its mummied frozen hands to the line, was hauled up on the ice.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook
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Ancient Egypt - Introductory
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Ancient Egypt and Kush, Lessons 1–3
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