The Egyptians may have the most famous mummies, but they're not the oldest. The Chinchorro people of Chile's Atacama Desert were the first to mummify their dead – 7,000 years ago.
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“It was a silver lining of the lockdown for me, I was working from home and I looked out my office window and happened to see two foxes in the daylight which I had never seen before and probably wouldn’t have if I wasn’t working from home.
“That started six months of me sitting on an upturned bucket at the bottom of my garden waiting endlessly for the foxes to appear,” he said.
The stunning collection of photographs are a part of the shortlist for RTE’s Eye of Nature competition which are currently being showcased in the National Botanic Gardens.