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The Sleeping Couple — The Most Perfectly Preserved Mummies in Egypt 🌙👁️ Inside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo lies a sight that defies both time and death — the perfectly preserved bodies of Husband Yuya and Wife Thuya, the noble couple who lived more than 3,400 years ago, and whose faces still look as if they’re simply asleep. Every detail — from their eyelashes to their skin and hair — remains astonishingly intact, a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian embalming. Modern scientists still struggle t