Mummies From Around the World

Mummy Mummies preserved bodies
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Queen Hatshepsut
The mummy of Hatshepsut, Egypt's greatest female pharaoh, was originally discovered in 1903 by Howard Carter. But it was identified only recently, after antiquity experts used 21st century technologies such as CT scans and DNA genetic marking.

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