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Recent Examples of mummyHighlights 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.—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 See All Example Sentences for mummy
Most historians believe Gunness would first poison her suitors, then finish them with an ax or by bludgeoning — afterward dismembering the corpses and burying what remained.
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Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
Eight corpses were on the floor of kitchen dry storage.
It was born with the same temperature everywhere, it was born spatially flat, and it was born in such a way that those non-existent high-energy relics were forbidden.
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Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Oct. 2025
Edge grew up surrounded by Civil War folklore and relics.
Other than Hogan and Worden, Gein’s subjects were all exhumed cadavers, though he is suspected to have been involved in the disappearance of additional women and girls from the area.
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Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
Eventually, the search measures would include drones, helicopters, boats, cadaver dogs, and volunteer teams, but none turned up any trace of Jon, according to Sheriff King.
The attorneys have sought his release by filing a habeas corpus petition in federal court.
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Suzanne Gamboa,
NBC news,
23 Sep. 2025
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.
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