10 Mummies That are Important and Valuable to Archaeologists
by These miraculous mummies still remain myths or secrets. When speaking of the term of a mummy, people will first think of the ancient Egypt mummy. In fact, mummies are found in all parts of the world.
Mummy literally refers to a dry corpse. The “mummy” originated from a Persian’s word “muniai”, which means “wax.” Ancient Egyptians used the specific preservation spices to preserve the body of the death. They believed that the soul of the dead people will not disappear but they will dwell in the statue or the corpse. Therefore, the body of Pharaoh was made into a mummy after his death.
Originally, mummy referred to asphalt meaning a non-decomposed body. Large amount of mummies with the most complicated technology in their making have been found in Egypt. When Egyptians made a mummy, they used an iron hook to extract the brain marrow out from the dead person’s nose nostrils. Then they stuffed the empty side in the brain part with drugs for cleaning purposes. Next, they used a sharp stone knife to cut through the abdomen in order to remove the entire internal organs. After that, they cleaned up the abdomen. Some coconut wine and mashed spices were filled in the abdominal part before knitting it closed. After completing this step, they placed the mummy inside the alkaline powder for 70 days. After 70 days, they cleaned the mummy thoroughly. Then they wrapped the mummy with a fine, white linen bandage from the head until to the toe. The exterior part of the mummy was then painted with a type of tree’s latex as a substitution of a glue gum before giving it to their respective relative. The relative would then put the mummy into a specially created human-shape box. Finally, they put the mummy in the tomb by placing it upright to the wall.
The Making of a Mummy
Such expensive ways to handle the dead body was generally applicable to the Pharaoh, the prestigious officials and the rich people. The poor had a very simple approach of making the mummies that consumed only a small amount of money. Egyptians used a cathartic cleansing agent to clean the abdomen before soaking the corpse in an alkaline powder for approximately 70 days. Later, they took out the corpse from the powder and let it dry out naturally in the wind. before burying it in dry sand dunes.
Regardless of being rich or poor, each dead body has to be made into a mummy in ancient Egypt. They believed that the body and the soul constituted human beings. Even if the soul was in hell, they still need their own dead bodies. As long as the dead body was preserved, the soul can be sheltered in its body, and they could undergo reincarnation for the purpose of rebirth.
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Post CommentAnne Lyken-Garner
On December 27, 2007 at 9:45 am
good pictures
CHAN LEE PENG
On December 27, 2007 at 9:58 am
Thank you, Anne.
Judy Sheldon-Walker
On December 27, 2007 at 2:08 pm
You have presented a fascinating article. Thank you for the time and research.
Jared Stenzel
On December 28, 2007 at 9:30 pm
I learned a lot of things. I am always watching these types of shows on the discovery channels, and yet you managed to discover numerous things I’d never heard about. Great article!
Darlene McFarlane
On January 9, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Very nicely done. Another article worth reading.
jimbo
On March 19, 2008 at 11:29 am
it was a great site to visit it gave me lots of ideas for my project at school thank you
kev
On March 24, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Good ideas and photos-DNA and mummies are going to be a very big science field. I have read that Lenin is chemically treated and cared for on a daily basis.
sos
On May 8, 2008 at 8:59 am
it is mean to have babies on there
bettie lou
On May 8, 2008 at 9:01 am
SAD.
Phil
On May 17, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Nice research, but you really need to check your information before presenting it as fact. Besides the fact that much of this article is worded so poorly that it is nearly unreadable, many of your references are wrong, for example, you have an image of Ötzi the ice man (not Ozzy), but refer to it as being a mummy from the Franklin mission.
Sorry to get on your case, but before you present an item as a fact, you should really put some effort into getting it right first.
Shan zhu Shoughlouyhr
On March 3, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Sorry no comment last time.Best mummy pictures I have ever seen!
Zai Jian. P.S i am Chinese cool right
Charn
On May 19, 2009 at 12:26 pm
hi those pictures are scary but nice i learned alot…….
Jojo
On May 19, 2009 at 12:28 pm
those are horrible and nasty and scary ugh……..and who ever has a problem can live with it because i dont care go sick wevos
Anas
On November 2, 2009 at 12:06 pm
but not most of people know that Pharaoh’s civilization not related to egyptian the Pharaoh’s civilization is another separate thing from Egypt
Nissa Kellerman
On February 6, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Some of those are *NOT* mummies. The ones I’m referring to, in fact, are actually bog bodies. Bog bodies and mummies are different, including the fact that bog bodies and mummies are preserved in different ways.
Like your second to last picture is a bog body.
And before you submit a story…. you should do a little more research than you did here.
And your “mummy” of “Ozzy Iceman” is actually named Ötzi the ice man.
No hard feelings, by the way. :\
Reasurcher
On February 19, 2010 at 7:05 am
Incredible and Fascinating. I love it. Though some of the factors of why they were mummified is cruel and unbelievable
Sonia P
On April 7, 2010 at 5:55 pm
The pictures were nice and the information was very useful for my research. but the picture of Franklin Mummy was not Franklin thats Otzi. I saw that picture when i was searching for Otzi. Anyways Thank You!
K8
On June 18, 2010 at 10:17 am
I agree with Phil.
The grouping and the fotos are fascinating but the text is so poorly written that it makes it difficult to believe the information included in the page is credible.
May I suggest having a native speaker of English check your syntax before you post again on the internet?
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On November 23, 2011 at 8:34 am
the article is really fascinating.
Duda Blei
On January 3, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Interesting article, but you should check some informations before posting, and let your own opinions aside.
The picture depicting Franklin is actually Ötzi. The baby Incan mummy is not even South American. It’s a 19th century Guanajuato mummy. Guanajuato mummies are from Mexico.
The last bog body depicted here IS NOT a woman, and IT WAS NOT found in England. That bog body is called: Tollund Man. He was found in a peat bog, in Jutland, Denmark. The thing that seems like a braid in his neck is actually the rope that was used to strangle him.
You also write in a way that don’t respect the culture you’re writing about. You treat cultures with human sacrifices as if they were primitives and savages. Maybe that wasn’t your intention, but the way you write gave me that impression. Human sacrifices were part of their culture and a reason to be proud of. The way you wrote about the Incas make them seem like savages. In fact human sacrifices in the Inca culture were minimum compared to others, and they respected the people who were about to be sacrificed, and minimized the pain of the sacrifice by giving them some sort of drug.
As your’re writing something about history, you should keep your point of view to yourself, and not treat great civilizations as savages only because they performed human sacrifices. I think you should research a little bit more, before posting something like this.
Also, your post was not about egyptian mummies. You shouldn’t have given so many focus to the egyptian mummification process, you should also have written about the natural mummification process. Just a thought.