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American Mountaineer Found Mummified In Peru 22 Years After Vanishing
The preserved body of an American mountaineer -- who disappeared 22 years ago while scaling a snowy peak in Peru -- has been found after being exposed by climate change-induced ice melt, police said Monday.
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Controversy Erupts In Mexico After Museum Staff Accidentally Break Arm Off 19th-Century Mummy
The incident has now sparked a dispute between Mexico's federal archaeology agency and the state government of Guanajuato over the treatment of the country's mummified bodies.
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Dead Bodies In This Colombian Town Keep Mummifying, And Nobody Knows Why
In the small, mountainous Colombian town of San Bernardo, an unusual discovery has left residents and scientists confused. There's a common occurrence at the town's municipal cemetery - deceased residents keep mummifying without preservatives.
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US Teacher's Limbs "Mummified" By Infection, Forced to Undergo Amputation
Sherri's body's resistance to infection was weakened by the arthritis medicine she was taking, which made the situation worse.
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Russian Woman Slept With Husband's Mummified Corpse For 4 Years, Performed Rituals
Recently, a social worker checking on the family's minor children discovered the mummified body.
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Shark That Ate Russian Man On Camera To Be Mummified In Egypt Museum
Some of his body parts were recovered inside the shark's stomach, while the rest were recovered by fishermen from the sea.
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Man Kept Mother's Mummified Body On His Couch For 13 Years, Arrested
The owner of the house has been taken by paramedics to the hospital where he will be examined by expert psychiatrists.
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"Virtually Mummified" Woman's Body Found In Donation Bin In US
An autopsy is scheduled to take place on Wednesday to determine the cause and manner of death.
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Mummified Body Of Woman Found 2 Years After Death, Sitting At Table
Italian police have discovered the mummified remains of a 70-year-old woman sitting at a table more than two years after she died, prompting calls for better elder care in the country.
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"Mummified" Body Found In Wooden Box In Bhopal Flat, Locked For Months
A highly decomposed body was found from a locked flat in Vidya Nagar in Bhopal, police said Monday.
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79-Year-Old French Man Lived With Father's Mummified Body For 10 Years
French police have found the mummified body of a man who died a decade ago in the flat of his deceased 79-year-old son, the police said on Thursday.
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After Hoarder Died, Cleaners Made A 'Creepy' Discovery In His Home: A Mummified Body
While clearing garbage from the house this week, crews uncovered a mummified body either under a rug or rolled up in one in the back of the house, according to neighbors and police. Though it's unclear how long the body had been decomposing in the home, police said in a statement that it had been there for "a considerable time."
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Kolkata Woman's Body Kept In Freezer At Home; Husband, Son Lived With It For 2 Years
The body of an elderly woman was recovered from a freezer, the kind used to store ice cream in commercial outlets, from a house in Kolkata. The woman, Bina Majumdar, had died on 7 April 2015 when she 84 years old. Her son, a leather technology graduate, is suspected to have removed her intestines and mummified the body with chemicals before keeping...
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Mummified Body Of Man Found On A Drifting Yacht, Hunched On A Table
A German sailor whose mummified body was found on a yacht adrift off the southern Philippines had died of a heart attack about a week earlier, according to an autopsy report released today.
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Mummy Mystery Lingers on Daunting Mexico Peak
A blanket of fresh snow has fallen on Mexico's highest summit, preserving the mystery surrounding the discovery of two mummified bodies near the peak locked in a frozen embrace, frozen in time.
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American Mountaineer Found Mummified In Peru 22 Years After Vanishing
The preserved body of an American mountaineer -- who disappeared 22 years ago while scaling a snowy peak in Peru -- has been found after being exposed by climate change-induced ice melt, police said Monday.
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Controversy Erupts In Mexico After Museum Staff Accidentally Break Arm Off 19th-Century Mummy
The incident has now sparked a dispute between Mexico's federal archaeology agency and the state government of Guanajuato over the treatment of the country's mummified bodies.
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Dead Bodies In This Colombian Town Keep Mummifying, And Nobody Knows Why
In the small, mountainous Colombian town of San Bernardo, an unusual discovery has left residents and scientists confused. There's a common occurrence at the town's municipal cemetery - deceased residents keep mummifying without preservatives.
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US Teacher's Limbs "Mummified" By Infection, Forced to Undergo Amputation
Sherri's body's resistance to infection was weakened by the arthritis medicine she was taking, which made the situation worse.
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Russian Woman Slept With Husband's Mummified Corpse For 4 Years, Performed Rituals
Recently, a social worker checking on the family's minor children discovered the mummified body.
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Shark That Ate Russian Man On Camera To Be Mummified In Egypt Museum
Some of his body parts were recovered inside the shark's stomach, while the rest were recovered by fishermen from the sea.
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Man Kept Mother's Mummified Body On His Couch For 13 Years, Arrested
The owner of the house has been taken by paramedics to the hospital where he will be examined by expert psychiatrists.
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"Virtually Mummified" Woman's Body Found In Donation Bin In US
An autopsy is scheduled to take place on Wednesday to determine the cause and manner of death.
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Mummified Body Of Woman Found 2 Years After Death, Sitting At Table
Italian police have discovered the mummified remains of a 70-year-old woman sitting at a table more than two years after she died, prompting calls for better elder care in the country.
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"Mummified" Body Found In Wooden Box In Bhopal Flat, Locked For Months
A highly decomposed body was found from a locked flat in Vidya Nagar in Bhopal, police said Monday.
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79-Year-Old French Man Lived With Father's Mummified Body For 10 Years
French police have found the mummified body of a man who died a decade ago in the flat of his deceased 79-year-old son, the police said on Thursday.
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After Hoarder Died, Cleaners Made A 'Creepy' Discovery In His Home: A Mummified Body
While clearing garbage from the house this week, crews uncovered a mummified body either under a rug or rolled up in one in the back of the house, according to neighbors and police. Though it's unclear how long the body had been decomposing in the home, police said in a statement that it had been there for "a considerable time."
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Kolkata Woman's Body Kept In Freezer At Home; Husband, Son Lived With It For 2 Years
The body of an elderly woman was recovered from a freezer, the kind used to store ice cream in commercial outlets, from a house in Kolkata. The woman, Bina Majumdar, had died on 7 April 2015 when she 84 years old. Her son, a leather technology graduate, is suspected to have removed her intestines and mummified the body with chemicals before keeping...
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Mummified Body Of Man Found On A Drifting Yacht, Hunched On A Table
A German sailor whose mummified body was found on a yacht adrift off the southern Philippines had died of a heart attack about a week earlier, according to an autopsy report released today.
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Mummy Mystery Lingers on Daunting Mexico Peak
A blanket of fresh snow has fallen on Mexico's highest summit, preserving the mystery surrounding the discovery of two mummified bodies near the peak locked in a frozen embrace, frozen in time.
