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(intriguing, anatomy, startling, sophisticated, substantially, technology, focusing, breastbone)
Archaeology has changed ………..1………… in the intervening decades, …………..2……….. less on treasure and more on the fascinating details of life and ………..3………….. mysteries of death. It also uses more …………4…………… tools, including medical ………….5……….. In 1968, more than 40 years after Carter’s discovery, an ……………..6………… professor X-rayed the mummy and revealed a …………..7…………. fact: beneath the resin that cakes his chest, his ………….8………. and front ribs are missing.

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1. substantially, 2. focusing, 3. intriguing, 4. sophisticated, 5. technology, 6. anatomy, 7. starting, 8. breast-bone

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