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Professor: Mummies not 'little people'
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2001 Two well-preserved mummies discovered in Wyoming are infants, not evidence of a tribe of "little people" known in Crow and Shoshone legend, a University of Wyoming professor says. Anthropology professor George Gill says x-rays performed on the mummies show they are infants. The mummies are hundreds of years old and show signs of anencephy, a condition in which only the brain stem cell forms, he said. Still, Gill says they are very rare and indicate special handling for the babies. There are only three known mummified infants in the world -- the third was discovered in Egypt. Get the Story:
Tiny mummies were babies, not ‘little people’ (AP 9/29)
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