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By Tobias Carroll Mummified bodies aren’t a phenomenon confined to the tombs of ancient Egypt. Venture northwest of there, and you’ll be in the part of modern-day England where bog bodies — preserved corpses that have been immersed in the natural landscape for thousands of years — are sometimes found. Turns out if you venture thousands of miles west from there, you’ll find even older mummified bodies. These ones just aren’t human. As The Guardian reports, a miner encountered the mummified body of a young woolly mammoth in the gold fields of the Klondike. Well, “young” might be a manner of pers…