I. ANCIENT MUMMIES, TOMBS AND INFORMATION

Most of the mummies have their origin in Egypt, but a few important once are from China. Read here about these most important mummy information & findings:

• Mummies of Ancient Egypt
• Egyptians mummies (Mummy arts: Ancient coffin images)
• The Theban Royal Mummy Project - An online catalogue of mummies from the Theban cache tombs plus other royal & non-royal mummies from the Theban Necropolis
• The Royal Mummies (By the 'Catalogue General Antiquites Egyptiennes du Musee du Caire'. Detailed. Many images)
• Bahariya - Golden Mummies Discovered. Ancient Mayor's Tomb, 102 Mummies Found in Egypt (Uncovered the tomb of a powerful but enigmatic Pharaonic ruler and 102 Greco-Roman mummies, some wearing gold masks...)
• 3-D Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian Mummy using X-ray Computer Tomography (Radiological techniques to examine Egyptian mummies)
• Takla Makan Mummies ("..The story on the Takla Makan mummies -3,800 year old Caucasian mummies found in China- is quite interesting. They are described as having red hair, bluish green eyes. Plaid woven wool textiles with many colors..." - Some discussions)
• Well-preserved, 400 years old female mummy found in Korea)
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II. SOUTH-, AMERICAN MUMMIES

Mummies exit not only in Egypt but have been found recently in South-America as well. Follow our links to the famous Incan child mummies:

• Three Frozen Mummies Found On Peak In Argentina (Incan child mummies, two girls and a boy: Relics of an Inca sacrificial ritual 500 years ago. Story)
• Mummies in the Mist (Mummy in the Peruvian Andes)
• The Earliest Mummies - Were Mothers in the Andes Trying to Preserve Lost Children?
• Despite their rap, mummies are really very chummy (Article and images about a 1,500 years old Peruvian mummy, 1998. With 'nice' images)
• Unraveling a Mummy Mystery - Peruvian Man May Be Genetically Linked to Incan Mummy (Article)
• Mummies from Museo de las Momias in Guanajuato Mexico (Six Mummy photos from the Mummy Museum)
• Oldest North American Mummy (".. mummy excavated in 1940 and stored at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City was recently dated to ca. 7420 B.C., making it the oldest mummy ever discovered in North America...")
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III. EUROPEAN MUMMIES

When you are traveling in the European Alpine, you might have the luck to find a mummy as it happened some years ago with two tourists. You might not even be aware that you have found a mummy! Here is the fascinating story about Ötzi, the ice man:

• The Iceman - "Man from the Hauslabjoch"
• The Iceman's Last Meal (About the 5,300 years old Alpine mummy; with images)
• Bronze Age 'iceman' killed by arrow ("..Dramatic new evidence has emerged concerning the final hours of "Ötzi", the Bronze Age hunter whose frozen body was found in the Alps...")
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IV. MUMMY PRESERVATION TECHNIQUES

How was it possible that a human could be preserved so well? Find out more about mummy mummification:

• Mummies (Explains in short how the process of mummification for Egyptian mummies has been done)
• Making mummies
• Face to face with mummies ("..put a face on the Egyptian prince Uage in 1994 using conventional forensic techniques...")
• The Chemistry of ... Mummies, Recipe for the Dead - The secret ingredients used by Egyptian embalmers are revealed at last (Detailed!)
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V. MORE MUMMY INFORMATION

Need more? In this section we cover additional interesting mummy information such as about latest news, medical aspects or technologies:

• Neferchichi's Tomb - All About Mummies
• Eight b/w CT images of 2,000 year-old mummy (by The University of Washington School of Medicine)
• Howard Carter and the Curse of the Mummy - The rumor of an ancient curse didn't stop this archaeologist from opening the tomb of King Tut
• Mummy Interactive -The Virtual Mummy: Unwrapping a Mummy by Mouse Click (Computerization helps scientists in non-destructively examining mummies. A very unusual and interesting scientific mummy site!)
• Show Me the Mummies! (Article with mummy photos and mummy x-ray images together with further links. 1997)
• Cocaine and Tobacco Mummies Mystery
• Unquiet Mummies ("..Mummies -- named after the bitumen tar, mum, used to coat the linen winding strips around them -- have long held an almost magical fascination. The "civilized" world was titillated by Egypt's elaborate cult of death and by the extreme care devoted to preserving bodies for eternity. It was not uncommon in the 1800s to pick up a box of "mummy pills" made of ground, compressed mummies.." - Great Site with images)
  
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