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Two Inca Toddlers Were Found To Be Infected With Smallpox, As Well As A Rare Bone Infection Caused By The Virus
In 2016, archaeologists were conducting excavations at a 16th-century cemetery in the small fishing town of Huanchaco, which ...
Rare woolly rhino mummies emerge from the permafrost
His latest paper also makes it clear that woolly rhinoceroses belong on this list. Boeskorov is a senior researcher at the ...
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Machu Picchu
On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...
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What’s in the world’s oldest cheese? These mummies are giving up their secrets
In a previous study, researchers took tiny samples of the 3,500-year-old cheese that bedecked the mummies’ necks. An analysis of proteins in those bits revealed the presence of Lactobacillus ...
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Chinese scientists find world’s oldest cheese buried with mummies in Xinjiang desert
Chinese scientists say they have discovered the world’s oldest known cheese, dating back around 3,500 years, buried alongside mummies in the Tarim Basin in far west China. The team found the DNA ...
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Archaeology breakthrough as world's oldest cheese found on mummy's necklace
An unusual substance found on the necklace of a 3,500-year-old mummy has rewritten part of human history. Archaeologists say the bizarre jewellery is adorned with what is thought to be the world's ...
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DNA from world’s oldest cheese extracted from an unusual source — mummies
Scientists have successfully pulled a DNA strand from what they believe to be the world’s oldest cheese, yanking it from Bronze Age mummies in a Chinese graveyard, circa 2,000 B.C. The dairy ...
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Things to do in Salta, Argentina
The Llullaillaco Volcano, standing tall at over 6,700 meters, is home to the world's best-preserved Inca ice mummies, discovered in 1999. These mummies are evidence of Inca rituals and their ...
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Meet the ‘Saltmen’ — freakishly well-preserved ancient mummies found in Iran
The mummy, now known as Salt Man 1, was still wearing one of his leather boots and had some traces of woolen trousers on his leg, Atlas Obscura said. Chilling photos show the man’s preserved ...
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World's oldest cheese found on ancient Chinese mummies
HONG KONG — When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered a mysterious substance laid out along her neck like a ...