18-08-2026 06:00 via popsci.com

300 years of mummies found in ancient Egyptian tomb

The standard image of an ancient Egyptian mummy often features a very specific type of person and pose. A royal figure is interred with their arms crossed and placed inside a detailed and elaborately decorated sarcophagus. But this particular burial tradition is just one of many within a civilization that existed for over 3,000 years. However, today’s archaeologists don’t have to scour multiple sites to see how these funerary rites shifted over generations Not far from Luxor, a singl
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