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Archaeologists Discover Two Lion Cub Mummies Inside a Special Tomb for Cat Burials in Egypt
Archaeologists Discover Two Lion Cub Mummies Inside a Special Tomb for Cat Burials in Egypt Two mummified lion cubs, about 2,600 years old, were discovered in a tomb full of cat statues and mummies at ...
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Two Golden Tongues Symbolizing The ‘Flesh Of The Gods’ Discovered In Ancient Egyptian Mummies
The excavation of two Egyptian tombs dating to the Roman period, between 29 B.C.E. and 641 C.E., just unveiled a wealth of ...
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Cat Mummies Were a Big Thing in Ancient Egypt
Archaelogists uncover what appear to be cat mummies–a common practice around the Ptolemaic period. But an x-ray scan reveals a surprise: the mummies are just bandages. So what happened?
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Cats of Asia and Ancient Egypt
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is home to cat mummies as part of ... of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the extraordinary objects that reveal felines’ critical role in ...
Archaeologists Dug Up 52 Egyptian Mummies. Over a Dozen Had Mysterious Golden Tongues.
Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...