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Were Bronze Age Brits Making Mummies?
Mummies aren’t just Egyptian pharaohs or toilet paper-wrapped children on Halloween. The ancient British also practiced mummification [csmonitor.com], researchers say.
A significant amount of skeletons unearthed from the Bronze Age in Great Britain show strong evidence of mummification, according to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Antiquity.
Researchers compared ancient British skeletons with the bones of known mummies, including one from Ireland and one from Yemen. They found similarities indicating that some of the British bodies had been mummified too.
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