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A much, much older Chilean mummy than those in question. Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images Scientists Found Smallpox DNA Hidden in 500-Year-Old Chilean Mummies
Researchers accidentally recovered variola DNA from two Indigenous adults buried during the early colonial era.
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Photo: Ahmed Boug et al./Communications Earth & Environment What the Cheetah Mummies Found in Arabian Caves Tell Us About Ancient Predators
The caves don’t bring cheetahs back, but they do complicate the idea that the predators disappeared without a trace.
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The mummified hand of the Siberian Ice Maiden, a suspected high-ranking shaman. Not the mummy in question. Photo: Charles O'Rear / Getty Images Ancient Siberian Mummy Was an Inbred Shaman, DNA Reveals
This burial wasn’t modest. It announced her importance.
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