Mummification is among the best-known religious practices of the ancient Egyptians, yet apart from a few textual descriptions and tomb paintings, very little is known about the facilities where this ...
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7,000-year-old Chinchorro mummies turned grief into art
The Chinchorro people of the Pacific coast turned the raw pain of loss into something enduring and visible, reshaping the ...
The Chinchorro began mummifying their dead well before the Egyptians immortalized the practice. However, the Chinchorro ...
The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...
In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of ...
For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination is the moon, the ...
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Unbelievable stuff they didn't teach you about ancient Egypt
The Egyptians are most well known for their Pyramids, and their mummification process, but what about some of the crazy ...
Clockwise from top left: Excavation of burial shaft, Abusir, Egypt; canopic jars of Wahibre-mery-Neith; cache of embalming vessels, Abusir, Egypt; canopic jars of Wahibre-mery-Neith On the western ...
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