Egypt
National Geographic
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- Mummified Puppy Found In Egyptian Tomb
MSNBC (Jennifer Viegas) A small bundle found at the feet of an ancient Egyptian mummy whose tomb was inscribed with the phrase "Hapi-Men" contained the remains of a young dog, according to University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology...
- Hospital Helps Unravel The Mysteries Of Eygpt
This Is London Another older story which I missed from March. A HOSPITAL has helped reveal the secrets of mummified children from Egypt using state-of-the-art technology. A team of scientists, led by forensic Egyptologist Janet Davey, scanned three 2,000-year-old...
- Lecture: Beloved Beasts: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies, Salima Ikram
Daily Beacon (Elizabeth Storey) This page reports on a lecture delivered by Salima Ikram in Cairo, about animal mummification in ancient Egypt. Animal mummies, long overshadowed by human mummies, hold much more useful information about ancient Egypt than...
- Doggy Mummies
The good folks at National Geographic have finally added some images of the catacombs that some say contain millions of dog mummies dedicated to the god Anubis. The pictures certainly demonstrate why the catacombs probably interested Jacques De Morgan...
- The Dog Catacombs
This article has a picture though that is rather pathetic, the article is a brief overview of catacombs containing millions(?) of dog mummies. The catacombs were mentioned in 1897 by the famous french archaeologist Jacques De Morgan who included the catacombs...
Egypt
Photographs of discovery of puppy mummies
National Geographic
Photographs on the above page.
As part of the first full excavation of Egypt's ancient Dog Catacombs, scientists examine 2,500-year-old animal remains—a small sample of the roughly eight million animal mummies in these tunnels.
Likely supplied by ancient puppy mills, most of the mummies are dogs, and many were just hours old when taken for mummification, according to new research based on the summer 2010 excavation.
Snaking beneath the desert at the ancient royal burial ground of Saqqara (map), the Dog Catacombs were discovered more than a century ago. But only now is research shedding light on the massive number of mummies found in this complex of tunnels and chambers dedicated to Anubis (picture)—jackal-headed god of the afterlife.
Poorly mummified and piled high, the carcasses long ago deteriorated into indistinct heaps, experts say.
- Mummified Puppy Found In Egyptian Tomb
MSNBC (Jennifer Viegas) A small bundle found at the feet of an ancient Egyptian mummy whose tomb was inscribed with the phrase "Hapi-Men" contained the remains of a young dog, according to University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology...
- Hospital Helps Unravel The Mysteries Of Eygpt
This Is London Another older story which I missed from March. A HOSPITAL has helped reveal the secrets of mummified children from Egypt using state-of-the-art technology. A team of scientists, led by forensic Egyptologist Janet Davey, scanned three 2,000-year-old...
- Lecture: Beloved Beasts: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies, Salima Ikram
Daily Beacon (Elizabeth Storey) This page reports on a lecture delivered by Salima Ikram in Cairo, about animal mummification in ancient Egypt. Animal mummies, long overshadowed by human mummies, hold much more useful information about ancient Egypt than...
- Doggy Mummies
The good folks at National Geographic have finally added some images of the catacombs that some say contain millions of dog mummies dedicated to the god Anubis. The pictures certainly demonstrate why the catacombs probably interested Jacques De Morgan...
- The Dog Catacombs
This article has a picture though that is rather pathetic, the article is a brief overview of catacombs containing millions(?) of dog mummies. The catacombs were mentioned in 1897 by the famous french archaeologist Jacques De Morgan who included the catacombs...