Egypt
Don't have a Bird !
Here is an article on an Egyptian mummy believed to have a bird mummy in it's abdomen however the ct scan done on the mummy suggests viscera. The article comes with 9 excellent pictures. The article suggests that the mummy is 4000 years old but the coffin pictured in the story can be no earlier than about Egypt's 26th dynasty.
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Dig Days - Zahi Hawass On Nefertiti, Part 2
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/845/he2.htmHawass continues his detailed suvey of the data available for the identification of the Younger Lady, one of three mummies in the KV35 cache. As expected, he concludes that the mummy is not as Joann Fletcher...
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Quest For The Mummy Of Hatshepsut
http://guardians.net/hawass/articles/quest_for_the_mummy_of_hatshepsut.htmThanks very much to Jen Mason for the following artilce. On Zahi Hawass's own website, Hawass argues in favour of a mummy located in the Cairo Museum being that of Hatshepsut....
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Reconstruction Of The Mummy Of Pum 1
Here we have the mummy known as Pum 1 (Pennsylvania University mummy 1), the mummy was autopsied back in 1972 and from the picture the mummy appears to be in good shape. However in reality the mummy from the waist up is in many pieces and overdue for...
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Ct Scan For Iret-net Hor-irw
A 2500 year old unwrapped mummy of Priest from around 500bc has had his turn under the CT scan. http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1728134,stanford-scan-ancient-mummy-082109.article...
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Check Up For Shep-en-min
Vassar's mummy has received its turn in the C.T. scan. The mummy as indicated by the name of the God "Min" is from the Akmim area of Egypt. Happily he is the son of another well known mummy that of Pahat. http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080409/NEWS/804090351/-1/NEWS...
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