Tagged: mummy

Egyptian dog mummy infested with bloodsucking parasites

A dog mummy has revealed the first archaeological evidence of bloodsucking parasites plaguing Fido’s ancestors in Egypt during the classical era of Roman rule. The preserved parasites discovered in the mummified young dog’s right ear and coat include the common brown tick and louse fly...

FBI cracks its oldest case of mysterious Egyptian mummy’s head

The FBI has cracked its oldest case after successfully extracting DNA from a 4,000-year-old mummy’s head, answering a centuries-old question to whom exactly it belonged. The mummy’s severed head was found in 1915 by a team of American archaeologists working in the ancient Egyyptian necropolis...

3,200-year-old mummy discovered in Egyptian tomb

Archaeologists have found the well-preserved body of a 3,200-year-old nobleman inside this brightly painted sarcophagus, according to officials announcing the artifact’s discovery on Sunday. The wooden sarcophagus — carved into a distinctive Egyptian figure with black hair and heavy eye-liner — was found buried near...

FBI cracks its oldest case of mysterious Egyptian mummy’s head

The FBI has cracked its oldest case after successfully extracting DNA from a 4,000-year-old mummy’s head, answering a centuries-old question to whom exactly it belonged. The mummy’s severed head was found in 1915 by a team of American archaeologists working in the ancient Egyyptian necropolis...

Mummy with mouthful of cavities discovered

Around 2,100 years ago, at a time when Egypt was ruled by a dynasty of Greek kings, a young wealthy man from Thebes was nearing the end of his life. Rather than age, he may have succumbed to a sinus infection caused by a mouthful...

Stolen mummy hand makes its way home

The blackened, cloth-wrapped hand arrived in a parcel at Los Angeles International Airport in January 2013. It was listed as a sci-fi movie prop, valued at $66. But as officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection learned, the hand was from a real Egyptian mummy,...

Fresh ink: Mummified iceman has new tattoo

Four thin, black lines, stacked on top of each other, bring the total number of tattoos on Ötzi, a 5,300-year-old mummified iceman, to 61, according to an exhaustive new study. Finding the new body art, located on the lower side of Ötzi’s right ribcage, “was...

Mummy care (feeding, not so much)

A 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy has come out of his coffin in Boston to undergo cleaning and restoration at Massachusetts General Hospital.. Egyptologist Mimi Leveque removes salt deposits from the face of a 2,500 year-old mummy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 2003 — a...