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Animal mummy containing dog bones, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Long before animal mummies were used as religious offerings, animals in Egypt were occasionally mummified for a more personal reason—as beloved pets that were to keep the deceased company in the afterlife. [7]
This is a purported list of ancient humans remains, including mummies, that may have been DNA tested. Provided as evidence of the testing are links to the mitochondrial DNA sequences, and/or to the human haplogroups to which each case has been assigned.
The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, [ 4 ] 13 miles (21 km) east [ 5 ] of Fallon, Nevada , United States, by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.
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Medical or medicinal cannibalism is the consumption of parts of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases. The medical trade and pharmacological use of human body parts and fluids often arose from the belief that because the human body is able to heal itself, it can also help heal another human body. [ 1 ]
Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...
A mummified man likely to be Ramesses I. A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.
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