August 28, 2007

TIME’s Collection of ‘Mummies From Around the World’

The first two ‘mummies’ that made TIME magazine’s collection photos of 15 ‘Mummies From Around the World‘ make me raise an eyebrow and wonder, who considers Lucy and Dikika a.k.a. Selam, a mummy? These two are fossilized remains of Australopithecus afarensis.
Even if you hold a fairly loose definition of mummy, it is, in my opinion, [...]