Sentence examples for old mummy from inspiring English sources

Yes, she is in the ground now, far away in Rwanda, and that is how her child speaks of her "old Mummy in the ground".

He's also a "little old mummy of an Oedipus-Rex" and "an exquisite old fish-papa" and an "old, old, old, thousand-year old Tom-cat!" As the analysis takes hold, H.D. becomes more descriptive, more serious, more genuine.

Old mummy films are digitally dissected and collaged with other footage, yielding a waking dream about a demon lover (who might be culture incarnate); in a second piece, the artist superimposes an image of herself bound in rope onto a bust of a slave, to eerie effect.

But in his early years, with "Dear Darling old Mummy-snooks," Violet Coward, as his most faithful correspondent and best audience, these communiqués are endlessly playful.

It has already attracted more than 300,000 visitors since it opened in December, and tells the story of mankind through a collection of two million objects, including a 1,000 year-old mummy and a piece of moon rock.

Aufderheide shows the writer a bag containing parts of Acha Man, perhaps the oldest mummy in the world… Tells about Aufderheide's early career as a hospital pathologist.

The oldest mummy in whom the group found hardened arteries was Lady Rai, a nursemaid to a famous queen, who died in about 1530 B.C. when she was between 30 and 40 years old.

Bolivia has returned a 700-year-old mummy to Peru, from where it was stolen by antiquities traffickers.

2. Be nearly nose to nose with the face of two-millennia-old mummy, Nefrina, at the grand Reading Public Museum - set within a serene 25-acre garden Arboretum.

Finding out how ancient humans mummified their dead can teach modern scientists a lot, which is one reason why the San Diego Museum of Man is showcasing "Mumab," the 16-year-old mummy of the septuagenarian who died in the 1994.

The oldest mummies, he says, were probably Tocharians, herders who traveled eastward across the Central Asian steppes and whose language belonged to the Indo-European family.