Mummy

A mummy is a type of fossil where the soft tissue of a living creature had been preserved after its death. The deterioration of organic tissue can be stopped in many ways, but the main categories used to describe the mummification process are natural and artificial. Artificial mummies are the most commonly known type, being well documented in Egypt but existing in other parts of the world. These mummies are “artificial” because they were not made by natural forces unaided by humans. There are many examples of artificial mummification, from Lady Dai in China, to the pharaohs and other high-ranking members of Egyptian society, to the Pazyryk Mummies from Southern Siberia. However, the process of Egyptian mummification is the best documented and…

to-site 2 the priests would placed the body in sodium carbonate till the tissues dried out. They wrapped the body in many layers of linen bandages and placed it in a coffin. So my object explained is a doll which would be a mummy and, the linen tape is what they wrap it with. When I wrap the doll I will wrap like how they wrapped the mummies. First, they wrapped the head, then the fingers and toes, the arms and legs are wrapped separately lastly, they would wrap the body and place it in the…

While harvesting peat soil for plants, you come upon a body. The body looks like it could have happened a month ago. You question yourself, is this a recent murder scene? However, it is a murder from thousands of years ago. Bog mummies are people that were accidentally mummified many years ago. They were people that were usually violently killed in sacrifice and thrown into a bog. They believed that bogs were a connection to the gods. The bog mummies were wonderfully preserved people,…

Mummies. Egyptian mummies wrapped in linen usually come into mind when this word is mentioned. However, there is a plethora of mummies that many people do not know about. Bog bodies and crypt mummies are some of the most interesting types, because they are extremely unique. These mummies share numerous things that are similar, while also sharing things that differ greatly. Bog bodies and crypt mummies are very similar when it comes to their location, but their way of mummification and their…

reunited with the body in the afterlife, so the body had to be kept intact. A mummy is a dead body in which some of the soft tissue has been preserved along with the bones. Usually this means it was specially embalmed or preserved for burial, but sometimes natural conditions alone freeze, dry out, or otherwise prevent the body from decaying by inhibiting the growth of microbes. The most carefully prepared Egyptian mummies date from about 1000 B.C., but the earliest ones discovered are much…

Mummification= first the body was washed and purified . They purified the body because for it not to rot .second, they remove the internal organs except the heart . They believed that the heart hold the solo ,the priest filled the body with stuffing then they dried the body out and placed the body in Natron in about 40-50 days they remove the body from the natron and replace the old stuffing with new stuffing made out of saw dust . The body was rapped in layers of linen . After the mummy was…

I’m writing about a dirty job of mummification.I think the dirty job of mummification is when they pull out the insides and when they put the body in salt. First of all, a dirty job of mummification is taking the organs out because they pull their lungs,liver,and intestines i know this because in 4th paragraph it states, “the dead person’s lungs,liver,stomach,and intestines.The important organs were each out in their own little pots,called canopic jars.’’ This is one detail another detail is…

The Roman Catholic church had been using this method for a long time as well because they wanted to preserve certain, prominent members of their faith, like their popes. For instance, in the Capuchins’ catacombs located in Palermo, Italy one can see thousands of naturally and artificially preserved bodies. The way that some of the mummies in these catacombs are displayed and contained is different than the way that the Egyptians did it. Some of these mummies are displayed in very lifelike…

Mummification is when the skin and the flesh of a coarse is preserved. Some mummies would be kept wet, most are frozen, and some are dehydrated. The operation could either be naturally or intentionally. If it happens naturally, it is the result of acid, or just dryness. The Egyptian mummies are intentionally made because of the drying of the body. By taking out all the moisture, you have removed all decay. By using a salt mixture called Natron they dry the body. Natron is a legitimate substance…

The Iceman, also called Ötzi, is a mummy from the Stone Ages who was discovered by hikers, Erika and Helmut Simon in the Alps in the late 1900s. The Iceman when he was found was stuck in a glacier called the Niederjoch Glacier. This glacier is part of what kept the Iceman preserved for so long. He is one of the oldest mummies in the world, at about 5,300 years old and he lived around 3300 BCE. When the Iceman was first discovered, he was thought to have died of natural causes. This was thought…