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READ MORE: Ancient Egyptians had surprising FOREIGN roots, study finds The 'elegant' face of an ancient Egyptian priestess whose singing was said to be able to calm the gods can be seen for the first time in 2,800 years. Meresamun had a role of 'high religious prestige' in the inner sanctum of the temple at Karnak before she died in mysterious circumstances. Buried in a luxurious coffin, her mummy was purchased in 1920 by American archaeologist James Henry Breasted, and never opened. Now her living face can be seen for the first time since the iron age, after CT scans were used to peer inside her wrappings. Cicero Moraes, lead author of the new study, used scan data from the mummy's skull to recreate Meresamun's likeness. 'She looks elegant,' he said. 'The reconstruction presents a harmonious and serene face, with features that suggest dignity and gentleness. 'While any aesthetic interpretation involves a deg...

Distressed Tibetan children as young as four sent to Chinese state-run boarding schools for indoctrination have been beaten for praying and wearing Buddhist blessing cords, forced to sleep on sheepskins and taught only in Mandarin, a new report has found. Researchers and activists say the boarding schools have been used by authorities to suppress the local culture and language of people in China's Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and Tibetan areas in nearby provinces. Details of the violence and coercive indoctrination have emerged in a new report from the US-based Tibet Action Institute (TAI) titled When They Came To Take Our Children . Two Tibetans interviewed told the TAI that children were reprimanded for practising their religion. "Students are restricted from wearing any sungdue [Buddhist blessing cords] around their necks and wrists and chanting Tibetan prayers," the report quotes them saying. "If the students are fou...