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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
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.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Sep. 2025
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.
Now supposedly dying from some terminal illness, Julian has gone total hermit mode inside of his cluttered London apartment, where the walls are festooned with the relics of his success and the backrooms are a junk pile of painful memories.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2025
Many of these local gems are cozy relics that house unique pieces that evoke a sense of nostalgia, hold a coveted aesthetic or have historical significance.
One of the cadaver dogs got a hit on the bathroom.
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KC Baker,
People.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Peebles added that cadaver dogs deployed to the scene did not find any hits, and that 90% of the homes in the area were red-tagged, meaning that residents are prohibited from entering them due to damage.
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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Adriana Carranca,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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.
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