Picture shows a X-ray micro-CT of a male Eucera inside its nest, undated. Scientists hope to find out more about bees' survival strategies after discovering 3,000-year-old mummified solitary bee larvae in Portugal. (Fernando Muiz, NewsX/Bee)

Researchers Baffled By 3,000-Year-Old Mummified Bees

• Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
• Post published:October 10, 2023

Scientists hope to find out more about bees' survival strategies after discovering 3,000-year-old mummified solitary bee larvae in Portugal. Researchers from Lisbon and Seville said the bees, which were ready…

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Photo shows an x-ray image that shows a case of Lithopedion, undated. Doctors reportedly found a mummified fetus in the womb of an 84-year-old woman in Durango, Mexico. (Newsflash)

Baffled Medics Find 40-Year-Old Mummified Foetus In OAP’s Belly

• Post author:William McGee
• Post published:August 27, 2023

Medics were baffled when an 84-year-old woman went to hospital with belly pain and they found a 40-year-old mummified foetus in her abdomen. The unnamed woman from Durango, Mexico, had…

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Mummified ram heads are uncovered by an American mission during excavation work at the temple of Rameses II in Abydos, Egypt, undated. The Mummified heads date back to the time of the sixth dynasty in Ptolemaic Egypt. (Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Newsflash)

2,000 Mummified Rams’ Heads Unearthed In Ancient Egyptian Temple

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:March 30, 2023

Archaeologists have uncovered more than 2,000 ancient mummified ram heads slaughtered in tribute to legendary Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. The heads were unearthed in Abydos near the temple of the…

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Photo shows ten crocodile mummies in an undisturbed tomb in Qubbat al-Hawa, Aswan, Egypt. They were discovered in 2019, undated photo. (Patricia Mora Riudavets/Newsflash)

Mummified Fertility Crocs Found In Ancient Egyptian Tomb

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:January 24, 2023

A 2,500-year-old tomb with ten mummified crocodiles unearthed near the Nile was probably a tribute to an ancient Egyptian fertility god, experts have revealed. Experts say the mummified reptiles were…

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Image shows a mummified cat, undated photo. It was found in an old Trabant 601 in the town of Ilmenau, Thuringia, central Germany in October 2022. (CEN)

Mummified Moggie Found On Back Seat Of Soviet-Era Trabant

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:October 17, 2022

A classic car collector was astonished when he found a mummified cat on the backseat of a Soviet-era Trabant he bought on eBay. Oliver Rietz, 39, from the town of…

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Picture shows Elsterwerda, Germany, undated. An unidentified woman, 60, kept the body of her dead husband, 67, for months in their apartment, in the city. (Newsflash)

Woman Lived With Hubby’s Mummified Corpse For Months

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:September 22, 2022

A woman in Germany lived with the mummified corpse of her dead husband in the other room for months before anyone noticed. The gruesome discovery took place on Berliner Strasse,…

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Image shows an ancient Egyptian mummy foot, undated. It was handed over handed to the Egyptian ambassador in Germany's capital Berlin on Thursday, Sep. 8, 2022. (Polizei Krefeld/Newsflash)

German Cops Hand Ancient Foot Back To Egyptian Authorities After Finding It On eBay

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:September 19, 2022

An ancient mummified foot was handed back to Egypt after it was found on eBay Classified Ads and anonymously reported to police. Police were alerted to the bizarre artefact, which…

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Mummified remains have been found of the 70-year-old woman Marinella Beretta sitting at a table more than two years after she passed away in Como, Italy. (Newsflash)

Mummified Remains Of Italian Woman Found Still Sitting On Kitchen Chair Two Years After She Died

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:February 27, 2022

The mummified remains of an Italian woman have been found by police still sitting on the kitchen chair where she died over two years ago. The mortal remains were found…

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Historian Anatoly Moskvin, 55, (pictured) was arrested after the bodies of 26 mummified girls were discovered in his home in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in 2011. (Newsflash)

Mad Genius Who Stole Bodies Of Dead Girls From Cemetery To Dress Up As Dolls Wants Freedom And Right To Marry

• Post author:Feza Uzay
• Post published:January 12, 2022

The Russian man who kept a house of horrors with 26 bodies of dead little girls that he had dug up and mummified has been denied a bid for freedom…

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Anna Catharina Bischoff as she may have looked in 1786, photo montage using scientific facial reconstruction (U. Wittwer-Ofen) and a contemporary portrait - J. Jakob. (H. Belakhal, Basel/Newsflash)

Mortal Remains Of Boris Johnsons Direct Ancestor Go On Display In Swiss Museum

• Post author:William McGee
• Post published:October 27, 2021

The mortal remains of Boris Johnson's great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother have gone on display in a Swiss museum as part of an exhibition. The mummified remains of a woman were found by…

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