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A 2,000-year-old hat intended to keep Roman soldiers cool in the heat of the desert following their conquest of Ancient Egypt has been painstakingly brought back to life. The artefact, now held at Bolton Museum, is believed to be one of only 3 similar headpieces remaining in the world
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This skull was preserved in a Danish bog for 5000 years, with the murder weapon beside it. The man was struck 8 times in the head with this wooden club, and analysis showed that his DNA differed from that of the local Danish population, indicating that he grew up somewhere else
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A mummy in Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace combines the head of an unidentified ancient Egyptian princess with a crocodile’s head and body. Legend says the princess was killed by a Nile crocodile, and rulers joined the remains believing she would be resurrected as a crocodile in the afterlife
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Anna Maria von Stockhausen's corpse, cross-strapped in order to keep her from coming back undead. Anna was accused of Satanism by a priest, and sentenced to death in 1775 but spared by the executioner who refused to kill an innocent woman. She was then imprisoned until her death in 1781
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At the prehistoric village of Hamin Mangha in China, the remains of 97 human bodies have been found stuffed into a small 5,000-year-old house before it burnt down. Anthropologists who studied the remains say a "prehistoric disaster," possibly an epidemic of some sort, killed these people
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Housed at Crete's Museum of Ancient Eleutherna, is the 9th-7th century BCE jar burial of a boy aged 11, and his devoted dog whose remains were found slightly above the layer of the initial burial, indicating that some time had passed before they laid the dog to rest just outside the jar
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