9 scientific breakthroughs that resulted from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt

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A still from the movie shows Joaquim Pheonix portraying Napoleon looking away from the camera as troops move through the desert in the background.
Joaquim Pheonix played "Napoleon" in Ridley Scott's last biopic.

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Immaculately Preserved Saber-Tooth Cat Cub Found in Siberian Permafrost

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An image of the saber-tooth cat cub.

8 ways new technology changed the way we think about ancient Egyptian mummies

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A person wearing maroon scrubs loads mummified remains into a CT scan
A medical radiology technician prepares a CT scan of mummified remains.

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New Study Suggests ‘Screaming Mummy’ Died in Agony

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The screaming mummy as photographed in 1939.

Excavators studying ancient Egyptian tombs discovered that even the ultra-wealthy suffered from disease and malnutrition

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An empty tomb with some construction markers in Aswan, Egypt
A joint mission of the University of Milan and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has been studying tombs in Aswan, Egypt for several years, learning much about how the people lived and died.

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7 scientific breakthroughs that resulted from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt

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A still from the movie shows Joaquim Pheonix portraying Napoleon looking away from the camera as troops move through the desert in the background.
Joaquin Phoenix played "Napoleon" in Ridley Scott's latest biopic.

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13 mummified mice in Mars-like environments atop 20,000-foot volcanoes have stumped scientists, who don't know why mice would climb to such harsh heights

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a mummified mouse is a mangled ball of fur with bones poking out on a white surface next to a ruler showing it's about two inches long
One of the 13 mangled, mummified mice that researchers found on top of Andean volcanoes.

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A gold miner found a mysterious grapefruit-sized fur ball. It turned out to be a 'perfectly preserved' 30,000-year-old squirrel.

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A stiff ball of brown fur sits in a pair of human hands wearing white surgical gloves.
This ball of brown fur and gnarled legs and claws turned out to be a mummified Arctic ground squirrel.

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Genetic Analysis of ‘Ötzi the Iceman’ Reveals Ancient Mummy’s Ancestry

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Ötzi made international headlines when he was found by a pair of climbers, sticking out of an ice patch high in the Italian alps. When he was found, Ötzi had already been dead for about 5,300 years, but his remarkably preserved remains have since given scientists a unique window into Copper Age Europe.

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Could the curse of Tutankhamun’s tomb be caused by fungi?

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The gold funerary mask mask of King Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
The gold funerary mask of King Tutankhamun is on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

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