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While exploring the island's western coastline above Waihere Bay, Köhler spotted a three-dimensionally preserved, mummified fish fossil embedded in a steep section of cliff that was almost impossible to reach.

From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026

Highlights include the larger-than-life granite kneeling statue of Queen Hatshepsut from her terraced temple at Deir el-Bahri and a mummified crocodile that measures over eight feet long.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

An adjacent room showcases two small mummified princesses -- Tutankhamun's daughters who died before birth -- also on public display for the first time.

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

Redacted videos of the couple’s mummified bodies captured on police bodycam recordings could be released if they are blurred, the court ruled.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025

The corpse was mummified by the cold, and this time the lawmen had no trouble identifying the victim: Henry Roan, a forty-year-old Osage Indian who was married with two children.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann