The birds are no longer in Egypt as climate change and the effects of desertification have made them move south to Ethiopia. Another commonly mummified animal was the crocodile.

A crocodile that swam the Nile River thousands of years ago was found mummified in Egypt with a last meal still in its belly. Leon Pauleikhoff via Unplash At an oasis south of Cairo, Egypt ...

A crocodile that swam the Nile River thousands of years ago was found mummified in Egypt with a last meal still in its belly. Leon Pauleikhoff via Unplash At an oasis south of Cairo, Egypt ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Archeologists discovered 10 mummified crocodiles in an undisturbed tomb in Egypt. The mummies were actually discovered in southern Egypt 2019, but archeologists just released ...

Of the 10 mummified adult crocodile remains found, five were just heads and the other five were in varying states of completion, but one, at over seven feet long, was nearly complete. Often animal ...

In 2019, during the excavation of a previously undisturbed tomb at Qubbat al-Hawā (Aswan, Egypt), an interesting discovery was made – the mummified remains of 10 crocodiles in varying states of ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a rare mummy menagerie, including the wrapped remains of cats, crocodiles, scarabs, cobras and two lion cubs. The discovery was made in the tomb of a 7th ...

Another commonly mummified animal was the crocodile. Although crocodiles lived in the Nile during ancient times, the completion of the Aswan Dam in 1970 prevented them from moving northwards ...