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Highlights At The British Museum From ancient Egyptian mummies to Assyrian reliefs and intricate artifacts from Indigenous cultures around the world, the museum's vast collection spans more than two million years of history.
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David Nikel, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Even though in the past, many researchers and non-researchers alike would unwrap Egyptian mummies for research and non-research purposes.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
According to the Associated Press, which first reported on the study, researchers from the University College London and the University of Ljubljana set out to investigate the aromas emitted by 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies stored at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Watch on Deadline That play, written with the prisoners by professional director Brent Buell, had everything from zombie mummies to Freddy Krueger.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
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David Nikel, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Even though in the past, many researchers and non-researchers alike would unwrap Egyptian mummies for research and non-research purposes.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
According to the Associated Press, which first reported on the study, researchers from the University College London and the University of Ljubljana set out to investigate the aromas emitted by 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies stored at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Watch on Deadline That play, written with the prisoners by professional director Brent Buell, had everything from zombie mummies to Freddy Krueger.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mummy
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Michael Weser faces two counts of capital murder and charges of abuse of a corpse and arson in the killings of Denise Rhodes and Robyn DeSort, whose remains authorities found Sunday on land close to Weser's home, the release states.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Sep. 2025
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Their investigation leads them to the rotting corpse of their old neighbor Patty Metzger (a great name for a character whose moniker will hang over the rest of the film), who disappeared years ago.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
11 Sep. 2025
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Comets are among the most captivating wanderers of the solar system — icy relics from its earliest days that blaze across the sky with glowing tails and mysterious origins.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Not a house of relics, not a memorial.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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However, officials said the officer did not find any bear carcasses or evidence of poaching.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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During the tour, the group came across not just a whale carcass, but also a great white shark who'd made a rare excursion to the surface to feed on it.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Justice Carmen Lucia, Justice Moraes, and Justice Fux were among the Supreme Court judges who declined Lula a habeas corpus in 2018, enabling the electoral court to bar him from the ballot against Bolsonaro.—
Adriana Carranca,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Between 1966 and 1970, Time-Life released its Library of Art special collection, a corpus of twenty-eight volumes, introduced (as per usual) one at a time.—
Jan Tumlir,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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