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Some specimens discovered over the last century retained detailed skin impressions and other soft tissue features, earning the nickname "dinosaur mummies."

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

Coffins holding centuries-old mummies at the museum were also destroyed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Sampling the air around mummies provides a fast, non destructive method for examining fragile remains while preserving their physical condition.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

This fits with our knowledge of the land of the pharaohs as a society that revered cats, immortalising them in art and preserving them as mummies.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

They weren’t anxious to hear the talk about mummies again; they never watched repeats on television, either.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg