over this blood-rutted land‚ the sun shines‚ the guards talk of horses and guns‚ go to the store and buy new boots‚ and the longer they work here the more powerful they become‚ taking on the presence of some ancient mummy‚ down in the dungeons of prison‚ a mummy that will not listen‚ but has a strange power in this dark world‚ to be so utterly disgusting in ignorance‚ and yet so proudly command so many men. And the convicts themselves‚ at the mummy’s feet‚ blood-splattered
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robbery‚ Elmer was tracked to a barn in Oklahoma where he was awoken by police and fatally shot in the abdomen after over an hour of unsuccessful attempts at apprehension. Preservation and Discovery Elmer McCurdy was an exceptionally well-travelled mummy. His mummified remains were discovered‚ sold‚ replaced‚
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When you think of a mummy what comes to mind? Most of us usually picture an Egyptian mummy wrapped in bandages and buried deep inside a pyramid. While the Egyptian ones are the most famous‚ mummies have been found in many places throughout the world‚ from Greenland to China to the Andes Mountains of South America. A mummy is the body of a person (or an animal) that has been preserved after death. Normally when we die‚ bacteria and other germs eat away at the soft tissues (such as skin and muscles)
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Apparently the first issue that many people tend to imagine after the words “mummy” and “Egypt” are mentioned is a given body that is wrapped in strips of cloth. However when considering the country and especially a couple of years back‚ the then mummies‚ notably the first ones‚ were naturally made in the desert sand. With their belief system developing‚ ancient Egyptians adopted another strategy of artificially making mummies. Actually this explains why they deliberately kept bodies of preserved bodies
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Mummies around the World During the ancient era‚ mummification was common practice as a ritual after a human died. Several cultures including the Egyptians‚ Chinese‚ and Peruvians participated in mummification. Although these countries shared this ritual‚ the method in which it was done varied among the various cultures. The variance was based on traditions and cultural beliefs held by each country. Two common types of mummification exist which include: anthropogenic and spontaneous mummification
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Stories about mummies have been told on Halloween or discussed in an ancient history class‚ but one doesn’t usually stop and think about how real the process of mummification used to be or the process that it involved. Mummification played a large role in ancient Egyptian society. This strange and fascinating Egyptian ritual is a multi-stepped religious practice of old beliefs. Deceased people were mummified primarily because of the ancient Egyptian beliefs. The Egyptians believed that there was
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When you think of a mummy what goes through your mind? The majority of us usually picture an Egyptian mummy wrapped in white clothes and buried deep inside a pyramid. You hear Egypt and think of mummies‚ pyramids‚ and all of the Egypt relics. The first mummies at Egypt were people who were buried in the desert. No one in Egypt had put them in a coffin so they turned into dust! Ever since that had happened they started putting people in coffins. Coffins are usually made out of just wood
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curse brought by an Egyptian mummy that had reportedly been aboard the ship. The theory was associated with the legendary “Curse of the Pharaoh” and suggests that this Egyptian mummy had been aboard the ship to be transported to New York‚ as per the requests of Lord Canterville. The mummy was a recently discovered body of ancient Egyptian prophetess. Due to its great value and fragility‚ it had been placed behind the ships command bridge. Many have considered the mummy as the cause for the sinking
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Iceman was quickly named Otzi‚ after the valley Otzhal that was north of his death site. At one glance‚ there really wasn’t anything that special about Otzi‚ the significance of him was that he had become the oldest‚ most prehistoric and well preserved mummy in the world‚ not since Tutankhamen had anything stunned the world this much. After the discovery of Otzi‚ many questions started arising‚ the main focus question was- Why else was the Iceman such a significant discovery? Many issues also came up;
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you to leave or die‚ you refused. And now you would have killed us all‚ you unleashed the the creature we feared from more than three thousand years.” -Ardeth Bay. This quote is from the movie The Mummy. Although this movie portrays mummies as creatures and evil beings‚ they can’t be more opposite. A mummy was seen as a beacon of light in ancient times and seen as a connection between life on earth and life after death. Egypt was seen as the greatest Empire in ancient times. Egypt started off with
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