opening tombs dating from the Ptolemaic era (305 B.C. to 30 B.C.) in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus that featured 13 mummies with gold amulets in place of tongues. The Egyptian Ministry of ...
PROF. ELLIOT SMITH and Mr. Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears in a most attractive guise (except for some of the illustrations). Its outward ...
but a mummy with golden fingernails; and heart scarabs, amulets, funerary pottery, canopic jars that held the removed organs of the deceased; and walls painted with elaborate, gilded scenes depicting ...
The intricate details of tattoos inked more than 1200 years ago have been made visible by scanning South American mummies with lasers. The mummies, belonging to a pre-Hispanic people known as the ...
After illuminating the mummies with laser-stimulated fluorescence, or L.S.F., an imaging tool that until now had never been applied to tattoos, scientists discovered lines 0.1 to 0.2 millimeters ...