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...the Abd al-Russul brothers from the notorious treasure-hunting village of Gorna, who confessed under torture to having found the great cache of royal mummies at Deir el-Bahri in July 1881. The cache was moved to Cairo as soon as possible to keep it safe from robbers. “In 1886 he resumed work begun by Mariette to uncover the Sphinx, removing more than 65 feet of sand and se...

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...the Abd al-Russul brothers from the notorious treasure-hunting village of Gorna, who confessed under torture to having found the great cache of royal mummies at Deir el-Bahri in July 1881. The cache was moved to Cairo as soon as possible to keep it safe from robbers. “In 1886 he resumed work begun by Mariette to uncover the Sphinx, removing more than 65 feet of sand and se...

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...the Abd al-Russul brothers from the notorious treasure-hunting village of Gorna, who confessed under torture to having found the great cache of royal mummies at Deir el-Bahri in July 1881. The cache was moved to Cairo as soon as possible to keep it safe from robbers. “In 1886 he resumed work begun by Mariette to uncover the Sphinx, removing more than 65 feet of sand and se...

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... introduced by the white explorers were actually indigenous.1,000-year-old Peruvian mummies, for instance, were found to have been infected with tu...

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...d gave him a challenging look. Jack added, “Didn’t a donkey find the Valley of the Golden Mummies by step- ping in a hole?” “Jack…” Alex warned. ... ...’s reaction to that kind of request?” Jack laughed. “He’d make sure you two were the next mummies added to the shifting sands of Egypt.” “Don’t wor...

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...on’t like your new bed mate? I don’t like mine either. Let’s go jump into mummies.” With Julian nodding, Rick winked at Chris. “If I’m not back in t...

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...give him ten out of ten. Love his curls Sarah, are they natural?” “He’s a mummies boy,” Steven cringes. “I bet he has a starched handkerchief in his...

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...d Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and fetuses as well as mummies are still being gobbled up - mainly in Africa and Asia -...

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...d Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and fetuses as well as mummies are still being gobbled up - mainly in Africa and Asia -...

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... to mark their sadness. Cats were sometimes mummified, like people, and their mummies have been found. Cats kill snake: a...

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...ite socks with low shoes. When he tired of this amusement he would go to the mummies and moralize over them. Usually he submitted with silent dignity ...

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... thoughts? Are we pauper Arabs, without a house of our own, that, with the mummies, we must turn squatters among the dust of the Catacombs?” “Pharaoh’... ...jestic; while life, though in a king, is contemptible. So talk not against mummies. It is a part of my mission to teach mankind a due reverence for mu...

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...s dried by the sun and dark and shriveled and leathery, like the pictures of mummies you see in books. And yet they looked just as hu man, you wouldn...

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...d and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants:...

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...e to nothing besides mining; and even the natural hill-side was all sliding gravel and precari- ous boulder. Close at the margin of the well leaves wo...

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...le trembled at. I was buried for a thou- sand years in stone coffins, with mummies and sphynxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. ...

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...d household. A touching affection sometimes unites wife and husband. Their children, while they are alive, com- pletely rule them; after they are dead... ...ef in the exorcising efficacy of funeral rites per- haps explains a fact, otherwise amazing, that no Polynesian seems at all to share our European hor...

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... a quavering line; some with palsied heads, others dark and shriveled like mummies; some erect and stiff, others bowed and bent, but all of them trick...

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...ear, dear! Poor restless heart of humanity! To think that the men who were mummies thou- sands of years ago, did the same, and ever found the secret h...

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..._60 But seven remained. Six the thunder has smitten, And they lie black as mummies on which Time has written His scorn of the embalmer; the seventh, f...