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PLoS ONE, 2020 Although Ancient Egyptians mummified millions of animals over the course of one millennium, many details of these mummification protocols remain unknown.
Camille Berruyer +2 more
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The Significance of Petroleum Bitumen in Ancient Egyptian Mummies [PDF]
, 2016 © 2016 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. Mummification was practised in ancient Egypt for more than 3000 years, emerging from initial observations of buried bodies preserved by natural desiccation.
Clark, Katherine A +2 more
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Différer la décomposition : le temps suspendu ?
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2013 Whatever mummification processes can be, natural or artificial, the aim of such a practice is usually to prevent a corpse to become skeletonized, and more generally to lessen the deterioration of the body which is to be buried.
Pascal Sellier, Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento
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Living with the dead: mummification and post-mortem treatment in Bronze Age Britain
Archaeology International, 2023 A long-recognised problem in British prehistory is the replacement of formal cemeteries and burials from 1600 bce onwards by deposits with disarticulated human remains, many of them found on settlements. At the Bronze Age settlement site of Cladh Hallan
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Journal of Biological Research, 2021 The high standard of artificial mummification in ancient Egypt seems to result from a long period of empiric assessment. However, it still remains unclear why the ancient Egyptians used specific dehydration substances, such as natron, and not other ...
Andreas G. Nerlich +2 more
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The girl from the Church of the Sacrament: a case of congenital syphilis in XVIII century Lisbon
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006 Syphilis is a sexually or congenitally transmitted infectious disease with an impact on the health of human populations that has undergone important cycles in different countries and periods of history.
Sheila Mendonça de Souza +2 more
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Археология евразийских степей, 2023 The article presents paleoanthropological materials from the early period of the functioning of the Berel burial mound Pazyryk culture. The monument is located in Altai (Republic of Kazakhstan).
Egor P. Kitov
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Gut Microbiome of an 11th Century A.D. Pre-Columbian Andean Mummy [PDF]
, 2015 The process of natural mummification is a rare and unique process from which little is known about the resulting microbial community structure. In the present study, we characterized the microbiome of paleofeces, and ascending, transverse and descending ...
Cano, Raul J. +6 more
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Multidisciplinary analysis of a mummified cranium claimed to be that of a medieval execution victim [PDF]
, 2012 This article presents a multidisciplinary analysis of a human skull with preserved soft tissue curated by a small museum in Boscastle, Cornwall, UK. The skull lacks a mandible and is coated in a black tar-like substance. Records left by a previous museum
Elliott, D +5 more
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Pathological variations in mummified feet between two near-distance/long-time populations in Ancient Egypt [PDF]
, 2015 Background: In ancient populations, a significant quantity of foot pathology was related either to the type of footwear they used or the underlying terrain they walked on.
Huber, Beatrice +3 more
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