* Protolith: Shale, mudstone, siltstone (metasedimentary) or basalt-andesite-dacite (metaigneous).
Anthracite Coal
* Protolith: Peat
In a crypt under the Qixia Buddhist temple in Nanjing, archaeologists discovered in 2010 a stupa with human remains, whose inscriptions identify them as Buddhist saints. Between them is a parietal bone of a skull which, according to what is inscribed, would be that of Siddhartha Gautama himself, the
The screaming mummy, protagonist of a plot that led to the death of Pharaoh Ramses III during Antiquity, is exhibited for the first time at the Cairo Museum, in Egypt. The Screaming Mummy, or the Unknown E, presumed mummy of Prince Pentaour, Egypt (XXth dynasty). One of the victims of the famous
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