Mummies

... one third of that), so we have had very little time to study this, after all. They even have disputes with the origins of many of the Egyptian mummies, and on the evolutionary time scale the mummies were enbalmed just a blink of an eye ago :) As to why there is so much controversy: probably ...

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... testing done on this mummy that was formerly believed to be female shows that it is actually male. I've also heard that DNA testing on Egyptian mummies can be kind of sketchy though, but I thought I'd ask some of you people to see what you think. It's one thing if it's a bit unreliable, but ...

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... The origins of the disease follow the first domestication of cattle. Skeleton remains show that prehistoric humans (4,000BC) had TB. Egyptian mummies from 3000-2400 BC have also been found to have tubercular decay. References to Tb have been found in India around 2000 BC and in the Americas ...

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