Mummies are typically divided into one of two distinct categories: anthropogenic or spontaneous. Anthropogenic mummies were deliberately created by the living for any number of reasons, the most common being for religious purposes.

The best prepared and preserved mummies are from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Dynasties of the New Kingdom (ca. 1570–1075 BCE) and include those of Tutankhamen and other well-known pharaohs.

2025年3月21日 · Throughout the Middle Ages, “mummy,” made by pounding mummified bodies, was a standard product of apothecary shops. In course of time it was forgotten that the virtue of mummy lay in the bitumen, and spurious mummy was made from the bodies of felons and suicides. The traffic in mummy continued in Europe until the 18th century.

18 小时之前 · Mummies reveal secrets of the Sahara’s past Excavation of the Takarkori rock shelter, reachable only by a four-wheel drive vehicle, started in 2003, with the two female mummies among the first ...

2017年2月14日 · By the time of the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2613-2181 BCE), mummification had become standard practice in handling the deceased and mortuary rituals grew up around death, dying, and mummification. These rituals and their symbols were largely derived from the cult of Osiris who had already become a popular god.

2017年9月21日 · Unlike Hollywood portrayals with outstretched arms and shuffling feet, mummies are persons or animals whose bodies have been dried or otherwise preserved after death.

1 天前 · The mummies of the green Sahara were a previously unknown isolated population. The genomic analysis of the Sahara mummies revealed that the inhabitants of the area were an unknown group of humans that more likely than not occupied the region for tens of thousands of years.. The study also says that it is likely that the small human community that lived at the …

2024年7月2日 · In this gallery, we feature 20 images of preserved bodies from all around the world. View Full-Size Image. A Chinchorro child, mummified using the black technique. The Chinchorro culture flourished in modern-day Chile from approximately 9,000 to 3,500 years ago and produced the world's oldest intentionally preserved mummies from c. 5500 BCE.

16 小时之前 · Two mummies reveal a human lineage lived in isolation in the Green Sahara 7,000 years ago DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago. A skeleton at the Takarkori site in southern Libya.

2025年3月17日 · By studying these mummies, we know what they ate, how they spent the last few days of their life, their medical history, and even their cause of death. Most of the oldest mummies ever discovered were naturally preserved by such factors as arid dessert heat, mud, or layers of thick ice.