Archaeologist Carol Anne Barsody scans the mummified ibis to create a 3-D model of it for an upcoming exhibition. Ryan Young / Cornell University For nearly a century, an enigmatic, football-sized ...
A debate over mummified birds brought to France after Napoleon's conquest of Egypt played a central role in delaying acceptance of evolutionary theory; an episode in the history of biology. A debate ...
The ancient catacombs of Egypt contain millions of mummified birds of the species Threskiornis aethiopicus—better known as the African sacred ibis. Now researchers have cast new light on how the ...
In ancient Egypt, sacred ibises were collected from their natural habitats to be ritually sacrificed, according to a new study. In ancient Egypt, Sacred Ibises were collected from their natural ...
Threski, the Lampoon's Sacred Ibis, now rests in Russian territory. Semyon K. Tsarapkin, Deputy Representative of the U.S.S.R. in the United Nations, accepted the Ibis on behalf of the Russian ...
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