Also as far as back as March 2005 and April 2000.
In addition to the cat remains, archeologists also found mummified scarab beetles in a decorative box.
Most audiences now regard Otto Klemperer's ample but magisterial 40 minutes from the 1950s as mummifying.
He also has a mummified human hand and various body parts, a lot of obscure old Japanese toys, and a baseball signed by disgraced baseball star and tremendous gambling addict Pete Rose that says, "I'm sorry I shot JFK".
Creatures as small as scarab beetles and as great as cattle were mummified as food offerings for the deceased or, most often, as a form of communication to the gods.
Dating of the Sacred Ibis mummies, as well as other mummified animal specimens, has been based on archaeological evidence such as the age of catacombs, the design of enclosures and the shape of the mummy containers (pottery jars, wooden chests or stone boxes).
From Siberia to Italy, from Egypt to Japan, as much as 5,000 years ago, mummified corpses have been found with dots, dashes and geometric patterns inked on their skin (but no rudimentary hearts or anchors, sadly, nor banners carrying the words "Mum" or "Born to Raise Hell").
During Hutton's trial, Bradford Crown Court heard how the mother-of-eight was living in "breathtakingly awful" conditions with five of her young children as well as Hamzah's mummified remains.
The more recent archeologically excavated corpse was sampled as soon as graves and mummified remains were exposed to the surface.
The site includes unusual amounts of perishable materials such as hide, feathers and wood, as well as the buried and mummified remains of an inhabitant, named by researchers "Mummy Joe," and dated to about AD 800.
