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Monday, February 9
February 9, 2009

A room containing 22 mummies and eight sarcophagi were discovered within a 2,600-year-old tomb in Saqqara. The poorly preserved mummies had been placed in niches in the tomb’s walls. Researchers think they may have found the oldest human-ancestor hairs imbedded in fossilized hyena dung. The coprolites were uncovered in a cave in South Africa, and […]

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