Doesn't look a day over 1000 years old

Italy was unified in Roman times as a single political unit. It was broken was germanic invasions, then Byzantine, etc.

Same person - he's just called Marco Antonio in Italian and Spanish.

Just makes me wonder why archeologists don't just leave these mummies where they lie? They were doing good for thousands of years! Why compromise the integrity of the specimen?! Or, if you're feeling ethical, the wishes of the long dead?

Geography plays a part. The Apenines cross through all the peninsula.

Mountains even today creates difficult for transport, communication.

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The article did say the mummy was instantly deteriorating when opened and current images was taken a lot later and doesn't do justice to how well she looked immediately after opening. Sad that we dont have a reference to it.

Although not about East Berlin directly, The Ideal World of Dictatorship: Life and Party Rule in the GDR 1971-1989 by Stefan Wolle offers a topical overview of society, economy and political structures in East Germany during Erich Honecker’s tenure as party leader. Since you show an interest in East Germany, I think you’ll find the book interesting. Also I think its hard to find books about the GDR especially in English. This book has been translated from German to English and is available on Amazon.

Well that’s definitely a way to find yourself cursed by a mummy lmao!

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Incredible. This made me sad to read though: >“When Xin Zhui’s preserved body was discovered, it was instantly compromised, and her body began to deteriorate. As a result, the photos we see now don’t do justice to the first finding.”

Thank you :)

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

> "There's a time, Leto, a time when you're alive. A time when you're supposed to be alive. It can have a magic, that time, while you're living it. You know you're never going to see a time like that again." Leto blinked, touched by the Duncan's distress. The words were evocative. Idaho raised both hands, palms up, to chest-height, a beggar Asking for something he knew he could not receive.

>"Then . . . one day you wake up and you remember dying . . . and you remember the axlotl tank . . . and the Tleilaxu nastiness which awakened you . . . and it's supposed to start all over again. But it doesn't. It never does, Leto.”

i read damien keown's "buddhism a very short introduction" and i think it fits your needs.

Is this the one they think is Cleopatra? Cleopatra once stated “no man shall find my tomb” and the person who discovered it was a woman?

Imagine that conversation when the clone is old enough to understand lol "Yeah youre a scientific reanimation of some lady who was alive 2000 years ago haha"

But wouldn't revolutionizing the understanding of history kinda make them relevant again, you know like when the Valley of The Kings was first discovered???

I personally preferred the cat mummies

One for the list, thanks!

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What makes you think it was European archaeologists?

they should clone her