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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2002 Since the beginning of the 20th century, research into parasitic diseases has been carried out in the European and American scientific community. The application of the diagnostic methods of current medical coprology to increasingly varied archaeological
Stéphanie Harter, Françoise Bouchet
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Imperialism and the abject Gothic double: Jane Goodwin Austin’s ‘After Three Thousand Years’
Literator, 2020 Jane Goodwin Austin (1831–1894) published her short story ‘After Three Thousand Years’ in 1868. Austin’s tale is one of the first narratives to deal with a malevolent female mummy and what is known as the mummy’s curse.
Allyson Kreuiter
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Intraguild Predation of Hippodamia variegata on Aphid Mummies in Cotton Field
Insects, 2023 Intraguild predation among arthropod predators in agricultural ecosystems may have a negative impact on biological control. At present, there are few direct reports on trophic relationships among participants of predation in field groups.
Shuying Dou +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 The purpose of this study was to develop a checklist for standardized assessment of soft tissue preservation in human mummies based on whole-body computed tomography examinations, and to add a scoring system to facilitate quantitative comparison of ...
Stephanie Panzer +6 more
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The state of the art of paleoparasitological research in the old world
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003 Paleoparasitology in the Old World has mainly concerned the study of latrine sediments and coprolites collected from mummified bodies or archaeological strata, mostly preserved by natural conditions. Human parasites recovered include cestodes, trematodes,
Françoise Bouchet +2 more
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Too small to be noticed? Children mummies reveal they stories
Journal of Biological Research, 2021 The study of sub-adult remains, either skeletal or mummified, has been always a fairly neglected subject of bioarchaeology. Regarding mummified subadult remains, it mainly seems that fascinating stories (i.e., mountain sacrifice mummies) are usually ...
Chryssi Bourbou
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Radiological and histological findings in ancient salt mummies from the salt mine of Douzlākh, Iran.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Computed tomography studies and histological analyses were performed on the mummified remains found in the Chehrābād salt mine in northwestern Iran. The ancient salt mummies are dated to the Achaemenid (550-330 BC) and Sassanid (3rd-7th century AD) time ...
Lena Maria Öhrström +6 more
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The Enigma of the Red Shroud Mummies
, 2016 The Manchester Museum has an extensive collection of human mummies from ancient Egypt. Within that collection are eight mummies from the Roman Period which have been CT scanned in the recent past.
Loynes, Robert
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Mummies’ physiognomy and its reflections in the artistic style of the New Kingdom
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2022 The research paper discusses the facial features on a number of statues of kings and queens from the New Kingdom, and whether they are “realistic or idealistic” when compared to their mummies’ faces.
Sara A. Abdoh
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Remote ancestors or scientific evidence? Pre-Hispanic mummies from the Canary Islands in the media
Journal of Biological Research, 2005 People have always been fascinated by mummies. In Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), the mummified remains of its ancient inhabitants are a source for superstition, fear, respectful recognition, collecting greediness, nationalistic pride, or scientific ...
Maria Meneses Fernández +2 more
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