Fantastic Beasts Found Inside Ancient Egyptian Coffins Sealed For 1,500 Years

IFL Science

By Tom Hale

April 20, 2023

Ancient Egyptian copper coffins that have been sealed for over 1,500 years have been “digitally cracked open” using fancy new imaging techniques to reveal their mummified contents. Although many of the innards have not fared well over the past centuries, it appears that mummified lizards wrapped in linen were placed in the coffins. Why, however, is still a bit of a mystery.

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