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Tutankhamun’s DNA test results unveiled

By Ben Morales-Correa

Image via Wikipedia UPDATE: June 28, 2010 – German researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in the northern city of Hamburg said in a letter published online Wednesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association that closer scrutiny of Tutankhamun’s foot bones pointed to sickle cell disease, in which red blood... »

Female legs mummified Egyptian style at Swiss lab

By Ben Morales-Correa

Mummy in British Museum / Image via Wikipedia Two legs which were severed from a female donor body were used by Swiss researchers in a mummifying experiment using the salty recipe of the ancient Egyptians. One leg was used in a control study and placed in an oven at 40 degrees Celsius (4.4. degrees Fahrenheit) with... »