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To: SunkenCiv

When did they start referring to skeletal remains, with no preserved soft tissue parts, as “mummies” and “mummified”?

I’m seeing this over and over again in the press, when the photos clearly show only bones or a skeleton.


8 posted on 07/14/2013 10:47:35 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch
When did they start referring to skeletal remains, with no preserved soft tissue parts, as “mummies” and “mummified”?

When they decided to find out just how far Billy would go.

Did ah hear someone say mummies?!

10 posted on 07/16/2013 10:09:09 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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