Cemeteries, Mummies, and Hercules! - Ep 248

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This week we have 3 fascinating archaeology news stories! First a children’s cemetery has been discovered in Turkey. Then, new research shows an Egyptian mummy was actually pregnant with twins when she died in childbirth. And finally, a new study shows that a 180 ft chalk carving in an English hillside is likely Hercules.

Links

• A cemetery belonging to 54 children was found during the excavation in the old quarry in Diyarbakır, Türkiye (ArkeoNews)

• Ancient Egyptian teenager died while giving birth to twins, mummy reveals (Live Science)

• Archaeologists have made a shocking discovery after a re-examination of a mummified teen mom who died in childbirth (ArkeoNews)

• Twins found in a Late Dynastic/Coptic Egyptian mummy (Open Access Paper)

• 180-foot early medieval carving of naked bald man with club is probably Hercules, new study suggests (Live Science)

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