Read more mummy stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/7001/mummy.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:07:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/56610/archaeologist-cleopatra-mark-antony-tomb-is-close.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn eccentric Egyptian archaeologist believes he knows where Mark Antony and Cleopatra were buried, the AP reports. An excavation team has uncovered a mask fragment with an Antony-style cleft chin, coins bearing Cleopatra’s likeness, and 10 mummies from the same time period in the Toposiris Magna temple, hinting that the...http://www.newser.com/story/56610/archaeologist-cleopatra-mark-antony-tomb-is-close.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 19 Apr 2009 15:29:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53668/macabre-tourists-flock-to-mummy-museum.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Mexican museum tells the story of the local mining industry with an unusual exhibit: 56 mummified corpses. The bodies, from as early as the mid-1800s, were removed from crypts that had been tightly sealed, allowing the bodies to dry intact. Elsewhere mummies might be considered freaky, but in Guanajuato,...http://www.newser.com/story/53668/macabre-tourists-flock-to-mummy-museum.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Mar 2009 10:22:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50573/egypt-unveils-ancient-mummy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIlluminated only by torches and camera lights, Egyptian laborers used crowbars and picks to lift the lid off a 2,600-year-old limestone sarcophagus, exposing—for the first time since it was sealed in antiquity—a perfectly preserved mummy. Wrapped in dark-stained canvas, the mummy is part of Egypt's discovery of...http://www.newser.com/story/50573/egypt-unveils-ancient-mummy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Feb 2009 19:01:17 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/35900/1300-year-old-mummy-found-in-peru.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagArchaeologists have discovered an ancient mummy in a tomb from a culture that flourished in Peru before the Incas. A complete female mummy, along with the remains of two other adults and a child, have been found in the Wari burial site in a residential district of Lima, Reuters reports....http://www.newser.com/story/35900/1300-year-old-mummy-found-in-peru.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 Aug 2008 4:50:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/33894/time-to-wrap-up-mummy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is more than a little musty. The third movie in the cycle features "more ancient corpses come to life amid digital effects laid on with a trowel," Jane Horwitz writes in the Washington Post , but the "tiresome and messy" result doesn't measure up...http://www.newser.com/story/33894/time-to-wrap-up-mummy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 01 Aug 2008 11:52:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/3555/its-a-wrap-tooth-ids-mummy-queen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn ancient tooth and DNA evidence appear to prove that an obese mummy found in 1903 is one of Egypt's most powerful female rulers, Hatshepsut, the New York Times reports. The tooth, located in a box labeled with the queen's name, "fits exactly" with a broken root in the mummy's...http://www.newser.com/story/3555/its-a-wrap-tooth-ids-mummy-queen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 Jun 2007 4:39:35 CDT