May 2011
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The realities of having a Viking funeral... →
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Archaeological News: Argentina intercepts mailed... →
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The shipping label said the mailed package contained replicas of Peruvian ceramics. An X-ray machine used by customs agents discovered it really held three skulls and a mummy more than 2,000 years old.
Authorities said Friday that the package was intercepted at…
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VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION
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How would one go about killing a mummy if one were to enter a cursed tomb and unleash a mummy apocalypse?
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The Life in a Day of a Museum Assistant... →
The first of two blog posts by Emma-Louise Nicholls of the Grant Museum about her work at the Grant Museum of Zoology - informative *and* inspiring!
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Twitter erupts over alleged family photo of dead... →
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The value-added tombstone... →
What’s the next best thing to placing flowers on your loved one’s grave marker? Teddy bears? Mylar balloons? Thanks to technology, those items are now passe. The latest way for you to pay your respects is via the QR code. The what??
A recent article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press discusses how Rochester (MN)-based Funeral Innovations is helping to spur the trend of this newly popular technology...
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Too Much Judgment: the media's shameful, cruel... →
Interesting article on the rapture that never happened…still, there’s always next year, right?!
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135-Year-Old Piece of Skin Triggers Smallpox Scare... →
An outbreak of smallpox was the furthest thing from historian Dr. Paul Levengood’s mind when his staff at the Virginia Historical Society put together an exhibit of “bizarre bits” that were added to the society’s collection since its founding in 1831, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
There was Confederate president Jefferson Davis’s cigar, confiscated by...
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Centers for Disease Control issue official... →
The next time a decaying corpse approaches you in the street, you’ll know what to do.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal agency, has posted guidance telling people what to do in a ‘zombie apocalypse’„,
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Archaeological News: CT scans of Egyptian mummy... →
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A childhood fascination with archaeology and a chance encounter with a 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy are helping Vermont doctors and law enforcement officials find truth in some of the most challenging of modern-day crimes: the unexplained deaths of young children.
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Archaeological News: Update: Is this the skull of... →
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The secret behind the famously enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa, the world’s most famous painting, could soon be solved.
Archaeologists on a dig in Italy claim to have discovered the skull of the woman who posed for Leonardo’s da Vinci’s masterpiece.
The excavation team revealed over the…
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Scientists fight University of California to study... →
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What happens when you're buried at sea? →
Getting tipped overboard is just the beginning. The gory—and fascinating—science of sleeping with the fishes.
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Archaeological News: Ancient Roman cemetery... →
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An ancient Roman cemetery has been uncovered by archeologists in Tunisia south of the capital, Tunis. The cemetery was found in Lamta, near the coastal town of Monastir, 160 km south of the capital, and is believed to be the only one of its kind discovered in the North African country….
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Archaeological News: The Accidental Mummies of... →
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Exhibition Features 36 Accidental Mummies on Loan From the Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato
DALLAS — They were miners, fathers, soldiers, farmers and children. They are revered by their descendents and have been visited by millions. They are rare, shocking … and completely accidental.
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Understanding Wari Mortuary Practices... →
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Did Neanderthals believe in an afterlife? →
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Neanderthal burial practices? →
For decades the debate on the familial similarity of humans and Neanderthals has continued back and forth despite DNA evidence showing potential sub-species status. Their classification as human or otherwise determines whether they fall into the category of mortuary archaeology, the study of human funerary sites in the past. So far, it has been questionable whether or not Neanderthals showed the...
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Excavations at Banks Chambered Tomb, South... →
A team of archaeologists from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) recently undertook a rescue excavation on a newly discovered Neolithic chambered tomb at Banks, on the island of South Ronaldsay, Orkney. The tomb is located on the southern tip of the island overlooking the Pentland Firth, approximately 1.8 kilometres from the Tomb of the Eagles at Isbister. Whilst this new monument...
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When Burial Begins... →
We are all so accustomed to the idea of burying the dead, that it takes a moment to realise just how peculiar this behaviour really is. Most animals blithely ignore the dead bodies of other members of their pack or herd. What makes us so different? How and when did burial begin? Paul Pettit reports for British Archaeology…
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Transforming Archaeological Glamour into Museum... →
The Power of Shrines... →
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Mona Lisa Descendant Criticizes Hunt for Grave →
A descendant of the Italian noblewoman thought to have inspired the Mona Lisa insisted her remains should be left in peace Wednesday as archaeologists began searching for her tomb.
Experts began examining the site of a former convent in Florence, where they hope to find the body of Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo, the wife of a rich Italian silk merchant and the woman who many historians believe...
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New issue of Mortality →
The latest issue of Mortality - the journal promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying - features articles on the role of archaeology in our understanding of contemporary death. Sounds just like my cup of tea!
