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The Iceman’s microbiome: unveiling millennia of microbial diversity and continuity [PDF]
MicrobiomeBackground The Iceman mummy, a 5300-year-old natural alpine glacier mummy, provides a unique opportunity to study ancient microbial ecosystems. However, disentangling the mummy’s endogenous microbiome from modern environmental contaminants introduced ...
Mohamed S. Sarhan +3 more
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An ancient genome of Streptococcus pyogenes from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsStreptococcus pyogenes, or Group A Streptococcus (GAS), is a human pathogen responsible for a range of diseases, from mild infections to severe illnesses.
Guido Valverde +6 more
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New insights on Ötzi’s injuries from a clinical perspective [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Tyrolean Iceman (Ötzi), discovered in the Tyrolean Alps, in 1991 is a remarkably well-preserved natural mummy estimated to be around 5300 years old, dating back to the Copper Age.
Jochen Weber +3 more
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Digital Unwrapping of the Mummy of King Amenhotep I (1525–1504 BC) Using CT
Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 The mummy of King Amenhotep I (18th Dynasty c.1525–1504 BC) was reburied by the 21st Dynasty priests at Deir el-Bahari Royal Cache. In 1881 the mummy was found fully wrapped and was one of few royal mummies that have not been unwrapped in modern times ...
Sahar N Saleem +2 more
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Archaeologia Lituana, 2019 This article represents a summary of the author’s past 12 years of research on several mummy sets. As mummy studies expand as a sub-specialty of biological anthropology, it is important to highlight the significant contribution that the study of ...
Dario Piombino-Mascali
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Systematic assessment of bone and soft tissue tumors on whole-body CTs of 45 mummies from ancient Egypt [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThere is a growing interest in the antiquity of cancer and ongoing discussion of the apparent scarcity of malignant tumors in ancient human remains, especially those of soft tissues. We systematically assessed bone and soft tissue tumors on 45 whole-body
Stephanie Panzer +10 more
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European Journal of Radiology Open, 2016 Purpose: The aim of this study was to systematically reinvestigate the first human mummy that was ever analyzed with X-ray imaging in 1896, using dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) in order to compare the earliest and latest imaging technologies, to ...
Stephanie Zesch +2 more
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Mummy Blogs and Representations of Motherhood: “Bad Mummies” and Their Readers
Social Media and Society, 2017 Digital technologies have opened up new environments in which the experiences of motherhood and mothering are narrated and negotiated. Studies of “mummy blogs” have explored the ways in which blogs, as social media networks, can provide solace, support ...
Kate Orton-Johnson
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The mystery of the “air-dried chaplain” solved: the life and “afterlife” of an unusual human mummy from eighteenth century Austria [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicineThe multidisciplinary study of the well preserved cadaver of the so-called “air-dried chaplain” from the church crypt of St. Thomas am Blasenstein (Upper Austria) not only solved the “mystery” of the excellent preservation of the trunk of this unusual ...
Andreas G. Nerlich +8 more
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Ancestry and kinship in a Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages cemetery in the Eastern Italian Alps
iScience, 2023 Summary: In South Tyrol (Eastern Italian Alps), during Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages, archeological records indicate cultural hybridization among alpine groups and peoples of various origin.
Valentina Coia +6 more
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