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  1. πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ ICYMI: 🦎πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

    Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/egyptian-anima

    #animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

  2. πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ ICYMI: 🦎πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

    Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/egyptian-anima

    #animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

  3. πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ ICYMI: 🦎πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

    Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/egyptian-anima

    #animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

  4. πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ ICYMI: 🦎πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

    Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/egyptian-anima

    #animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

  5. πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ ICYMI: 🦎πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

    Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/egyptian-anima

    #animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

  6. 🦎πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

    Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/egyptian-anima

    #animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

  7. 🦎πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

    Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/egyptian-anima

    #animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

  8. 🦎πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

    Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/egyptian-anima

    #animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

  9. 🦎πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬ #Ancient Egyptians carefully wrapped and sealed #animal #mummies including #ibises, #falcons, #snakes, #fish, #shrews, and a 2-meter-long #crocodile.

    Researchers at the British #Museum used X-ray equipment and CT scanners to see through the fragile wrappings without touching them.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/egyptian-anima

    #animals #anthropology #archaeology #culture #economy #egypt #history #religion #science #textiles #thebritishmuseum #traditions #research #tksst #video

  10. New York Times: What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan?. This link goes to a gift article. β€œThe scanner captured 320 different cross-section images of the mummies per rotation, slices that stacked together β€œlike a loaf of bread” to form 3-D digital models, said Summer Decker, the director of the university’s Center for Innovation in Medical Visualization, who oversaw the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/04/new-york-times-what-do-you-get-when-you-put-a-mummy-through-a-ct-scan/
  11. This is a very cool one. The scientific report on the first naturally mummified big cats ever found - seven mummified cheetahs, some dating back thousands of years, discovered in caves in Saudi Arabia #science #caves #mummification #mummies #zoology #history πŸ§ͺ www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

    Cheetahs naturally turned into...

  12. CW: Archaeology: Death and dying, explicit description and/or images of human remains.

    And, interestingly, also #smoking was a particularly mentioned example for such special treatment of corpses.

    Indeed, there are again ethnographic analogies for this peculiar practice too: thinking e.g. the smoked #Anga #mummies from #PapuaNewGuinea.

    livescience.com/50948-photos-s