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#Ancient Egyptian funerary practices #Arabic words and phrases #Archaeology of death #Corporeal undead #Egyptian artefact types

1 What does the following picture show?  An Egyptian mummy kept in the Vatican Museums.   A cat being mummified by Summum   A cat being mummified by Summum   Lon Chaney, Jr. as Kharis in the film The Mummy's Ghost (1944)

2 In 1994, 265 mummified bodies were found in the crypt of a Dominican church in Vác, ________ from the 1729-1838 period.

3 Known as "Mummy Juanita" ("Momia Juanita" in Spanish) or "The Ice Maiden", some archaeologists believe that she was a ________ to the Inca mountain god Apus.

4 The Egyptian city of ________ is also home to a specialized Mummification Museum.

5 More than a thousand ________ corpses, so called bog bodies, have been found in bogs in northern Europe, such as the Yde Girl and the Lindow Man.

6 A decade later, they played crooked used ________ salesmen in Mummy's Dummies, in which they ultimately assisted a different King Rootentootin (Vernon Dent) with a toothache.

7 The discovery proved to be scientifically important, and by 2006 an exhibition was established in the Museum of Natural History in ________.

8 Notably fine examples are exhibited at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, at the Ägyptisches Museum in ________, and at the British Museum in London.

9 [19] Instead his body was ________ and placed on permanent exhibition in the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow, where it is displayed to this day.

10 The aboriginal guanches of the ________, embalmed their dead; many mummies have been found in an extreme state of desiccation, each weighing not more than 6 or 7 pounds.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum in Salem, Oregon, has a mummy of a 3,500 year-old falcon?
  • the ASTRA National Museum Complex includes 90 hectares of exhibits about Transylvania, but also includes objects such as an Ancient Egyptian mummy?
  • the largest African crocodile, the Nile crocodile, is both hated and revered, especially in Ancient Egypt where crocodiles were mummified, and worshipped as gods?
  • the only items found in the burial chamber of the Pyramid of Neferefre upon excavation were mummy fragments and broken canopic jars?
  • the permanent collection on display at Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in Seattle, Washington includes "Sylvester" (pictured), an excellently preserved mummy?
  • the mummified remains of outlaw Hazel Farris helped raise funds for the Bessemer Hall of History in Bessemer, Alabama?
  • once a year almost 1,000 mummified bodies are put on public display inside the monastic crypt at the Church of St. Casimir the Prince (pictured) in Kraków ?
  • mitochondrial DNA testing of the 300 to 500-year-old Canadian "iceman" mummy Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi and current clans of British Columbia revealed 17 living relatives?
  • Blanche Cave, in Australia's Naracoorte Caves National Park, used to exhibit an indigenous man's mummified remains, which were stolen in 1861 and never returned?
  • KV35YL, a mummy that was discovered in the ancient Egyptian tomb KV35 in 1898 and thought to be male at the time, was recently determined by DNA testing to be King Tut's mother?
  • a mummy was found in a cave in Wyoming?
  • lice from mummified guinea pigs and mites preserved in amber while feeding on spiders have provided evidence for researchers in the field of paleoparasitology?
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