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Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

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First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially found to be home to at least 70 hominin footprints ...

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Researchers unveil the inner mechanisms of the most intricate and complex molecular machine in human biology. Scientists at ...

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