The Dark Universe Begins Again at Universal's Theme Park

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Universal Studios would not be the premiere cinematic experience theme park without the Universal Monsters.

Dreams and Nightmares Come True in These 20 Killer Vintage Horror Posters

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So what if you just emptied your wallet for those rare Star Wars posters io9 shared last week?

Screw It, Let's Just Re-Release Everything This Summer

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Over the last several weeks, we’ve been reporting on older movies making their way back to theaters.

Human Sacrifice Victim's Teeth Reveal His Life Story

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When you die, what story will your teeth hold for the geneticists of the future? Hopefully the tale will be more uplifting than that of Vittrup Man, a forager-turned-farmer whose skull was smashed in over 5,000 years ago in what is now Denmark.

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Researchers were surprised to discover a second fetus inside a 2,000-year-old mummy over 100 years after archeologists found it

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A mummified woman's head and shoulders with her hair in braids and face turned to the side
Though the mummified woman's head is missing, a photograph of her remains.

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Mummified baboons found in Egypt have puzzled scientists for 118 years. Now we finally might know how they got there and why.

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The skull of a mummified baboon preserved and held by the British Museum
Specimen EA 6738, held by the British Museum: Skull of a mummified baboon recovered from Thebes, Egypt and connected isotopically to Eritrea/Ethiopia/Somalia.

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An ancient Egyptian book of spells to guide the dead in the afterlife was found buried with mummies

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A picture shows the inside of a sarcophagus, in which is placed an ancient Egyptian mummy in good state of conservation , under an ornate cartonnage and a mask representing the deceased's face.
An photo of a mummy found at the Tuna al-Gebel site, presented at a press conference on October 15.

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Researchers reconstruct the face of a teenage mummy believed to have been sacrificed in an Inca ritual more than 500 years ago

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A close-up of Juanita's reconstructed face.
The reconstruction of the face of a young woman who was found frozen and mummified near the summit of Mount Ampato in the Peruvian Andes after being sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago, in Arequipa, Peru.

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A mummy unearthed in Egypt wrapped in 'layers of gold' may be the oldest ever discovered, archeologists said

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A view inside the recently discovered tomb at the Saqqara archaeological site.
A view inside the recently discovered tomb at the Saqqara archaeological site.

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New Scans Reveal 2,300-Year-Old Mummy Boy and His Gold Treasures

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Over a century ago, the mummy of a teenage boy was found in Nag el-Hassay, Egypt. The body remains wrapped to this day, but a team of researchers just used CT scanning to peer through the linens to find 49 amulets on and inside the boy’s body.

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