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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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Archaeologists Discover Two Lion Cub Mummies Inside a Special Tomb for Cat Burials in Egypt
The discovery site also yielded around twenty mummies of smaller cats ... was a tall bronze statue representing Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess associated with protection, music, and pleasure.
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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 ...
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Archaeologists Dug Up 52 Egyptian Mummies. Over a Dozen Had Mysterious Golden Tongues.
The modern-day discovery of ancient golden artifacts in Egyptian ... mummies, as the team reported that the tomb includes plenty of colorful artwork, often showing local families in the presence ...