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Baboon mummy DNA from ancient Egypt reveals location of mysterious port city not on any mapsA new DNA study suggests that the lost realm of Punt and the port city of Adulis may have been in the same place, separated by time.
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22,000-foot volcano summit is home to Earth's highest-dwelling vertebrates, study confirmsMummified mice found atop volcanoes in South America have long hinted that rodents forage on peaks as tall as 22,000 feet, but it turns out mice permanently live at these extreme heights.
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See gorgeous ancient Egyptian 'mummy portraits' from nearly 2 millennia agoThese ancient 'mummy portraits' provide a window into ancient Egyptian life and culture.
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'This is complete nonsense': Scientists rail against 'alien' bodies shown before Mexican congressScientists blast claims of two 'alien' bodies that a journalist presented to Mexico's congress.
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Elite ancient Egyptian woman was embalmed with exotic ingredients smelling of vanilla and larch, new analysis revealsChemical analyses have revealed the specific components ancient Egyptians used to embalm the dead, including exotic ingredients that were acquired through trading.
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Ötzi the Iceman may have been bald and getting fat before his murder 5,300 years agoA new DNA analysis reveals that Ötzi the Iceman was genetically predisposed to male-pattern baldness, diabetes and obesity.
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2,300-year-old Egyptian mummification workshops found at SaqqaraArchaeologists in Egypt found ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and one for animals — at Saqqara.
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Ancient Egyptian children were plagued with blood disorders, mummies revealA look at 21 ancient Egyptian mummified children reveals that one-third of them had a blood disorder known as anemia.
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Haunting 'mermaid' mummy discovered in Japan is even weirder than scientists expectedA new analysis of a mummified "mermaid" found in a Japanese temple has revealed exactly what it is made from, and it's not what scientists thought.
