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Thomas H. Maugh II, who has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from MIT and a doctorate from UCSB, was a science and medical reporter at the L.A. Times for 27 years.

A few days ago, Los Angeles Times carried a very interesting article written by him about how "an international team of archaeologists have discovered that two mummies found on an island off the coast of Scotland are, like Dr. Frankenstein's monster, composed of body parts from several different humans. The mummified remains, as much as 3,500 years old, suggest that the first residents of the island of South Uist in the Hebrides had some previously unsuspected burial practices."


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