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Recent Examples on the Web Researchers found pieces of 3,600-year-old cheese scattered on the heads and necks of mummies of the enigmatic desert dwellers, who buried their dead in unusual boat graves. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024 The mummies were buried in Xiaohe Cemetery, a Bronze Age burial ground in northwest China. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024 Yimin Yang View 2 Images Bizarre clumps of organic matter found buried alongside Bronze Age mummies in northwestern China have now been identified as cheese. New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2024 The buckets are decorated with Halloween designs like mummies, vampires or Frankenstein monsters. Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mummy 

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“Mummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mummy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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