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The mummies have long fascinated scientists and the public alike since their original discovery. Beyond being extraordinarily preserved, they were found in a highly unusual context, and they exhibit diverse and far-flung cultural elements. – Christina Warinner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The mummies are practically a biological museum, they are like a time capsule. – Sabina Malgora	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Building on work at the site by a Hungarian mission, Kathleen has confirmed the presence of a Ptolemaic period Isis temple within the larger Osiris temple that dominates the site, add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign. – Glenn Godenho	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign. – Glenn Godenho	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
My understanding is that the mummies found there are more likely to be high-status priests than members of the royal family. – Susan Walker	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Cat mummies have been found in very large quantities sometimes in extremely degraded states and reduced to the state of accumulation of bones. – Thophane Nicolas	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We believe on the contrary that there are innumerable ways to make animal mummies. – Thophane Nicolas	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The texts are damaged, Ancient Egyptian mummies are written in an ancient script that few people can read, and the terminology is immensely complex. – Kim Ryholt	Found on CNN 5 years ago
One of the mummies had a trace of an arrow in the head, it proves he died in a conflict. Maybe that explains three mummies in one big sarcophagus. – Aiman Ashmawy Ali	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Following the scans at KIMS Hospital, the remains were in fact revealed to be the mummy of a baby, initial reviews identified the baby to be a miscarried c.20-week gestation foetus which, if found to be the case, will be one of the youngest human mummies recorded anywhere in the world. – Samantha Harris	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Girls can dress up as dragons, monsters, spies, secret agents, mummies, queens, and even Peter Pan and the Fairy Godmother, they can be Captain Hook, Santa Claus, the Lone Ranger and cowgirls, as well as lion tamers, scary clowns, astronauts, firefighters, sea captains, rock stars and Indy 500 racers. – Teresa Downing-Matibag	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We can now observe that Winstrup's mummy is one of the best-preserved bodies from Europe in the 1600s, with an information potential well in line with that offered by Otzi the ice man or Egyptian mummies. Bishop Winstrup remains constitute a unique archive of medical history on the living conditions and health of people living in the 1600s. – Per Karsten	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The good condition of the body seems to be the result of several factors in combination : constant air flow, the plant material in the coffin, a long period of illness resulting in the body becoming lean, death and burial during the winter months of December January and the general climate and temperature conditions in Lund Cathedral a year, we can now observe that Winstrup's mummy is one of the best-preserved bodies from Europe in the 1600s, with an information potential well in line with that offered by Otzi the ice man or Egyptian mummies. Bishop Winstrup remains constitute a unique archive of medical history on the living conditions and health of people living in the 1600s. – The CT	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There are lessons to be learned about what ancient Egypt was like. From the mummies we can presume that Egypt might have been greener. For example, there would have been water sources that attracted large colonies of the sacred ibis -- one of the most mummified birds. – Lidija McKnight	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of “mud mummies” around you, get rid of the mud. – Perry Brass	added by JP03 9 years ago

The mummies have long fascinated scientists and the public alike since their original discovery. Beyond being extraordinarily preserved, they were found in a highly unusual context, and they exhibit diverse and far-flung cultural elements.

– Christina Warinner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The mummies are practically a biological museum, they are like a time capsule.

– Sabina Malgora

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Building on work at the site by a Hungarian mission, Kathleen has confirmed the presence of a Ptolemaic period Isis temple within the larger Osiris temple that dominates the site, add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign.

– Glenn Godenho

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign.

– Glenn Godenho

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

My understanding is that the mummies found there are more likely to be high-status priests than members of the royal family.

– Susan Walker

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Cat mummies have been found in very large quantities sometimes in extremely degraded states and reduced to the state of accumulation of bones.

– Thophane Nicolas

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We believe on the contrary that there are innumerable ways to make animal mummies.

– Thophane Nicolas

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The texts are damaged, Ancient Egyptian mummies are written in an ancient script that few people can read, and the terminology is immensely complex.

– Kim Ryholt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

One of the mummies had a trace of an arrow in the head, it proves he died in a conflict. Maybe that explains three mummies in one big sarcophagus.

– Aiman Ashmawy Ali

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Following the scans at KIMS Hospital, the remains were in fact revealed to be the mummy of a baby, initial reviews identified the baby to be a miscarried c.20-week gestation foetus which, if found to be the case, will be one of the youngest human mummies recorded anywhere in the world.

– Samantha Harris

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Girls can dress up as dragons, monsters, spies, secret agents, mummies, queens, and even Peter Pan and the Fairy Godmother, they can be Captain Hook, Santa Claus, the Lone Ranger and cowgirls, as well as lion tamers, scary clowns, astronauts, firefighters, sea captains, rock stars and Indy 500 racers.

– Teresa Downing-Matibag

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We can now observe that Winstrup's mummy is one of the best-preserved bodies from Europe in the 1600s, with an information potential well in line with that offered by Otzi the ice man or Egyptian mummies. Bishop Winstrup remains constitute a unique archive of medical history on the living conditions and health of people living in the 1600s.

– Per Karsten

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The good condition of the body seems to be the result of several factors in combination : constant air flow, the plant material in the coffin, a long period of illness resulting in the body becoming lean, death and burial during the winter months of December January and the general climate and temperature conditions in Lund Cathedral a year, we can now observe that Winstrup's mummy is one of the best-preserved bodies from Europe in the 1600s, with an information potential well in line with that offered by Otzi the ice man or Egyptian mummies. Bishop Winstrup remains constitute a unique archive of medical history on the living conditions and health of people living in the 1600s.

– The CT

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There are lessons to be learned about what ancient Egypt was like. From the mummies we can presume that Egypt might have been greener. For example, there would have been water sources that attracted large colonies of the sacred ibis -- one of the most mummified birds.

– Lidija McKnight

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of “mud mummies” around you, get rid of the mud.

– Perry Brass

added by JP03
9 years ago

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