OMG HISTORY OF MUMMYS

What is a mummy? 

The Egyptians believed that after death, the soul would wander in the world. for this reason, the dead body must be maintained. This was done by the process

of mummification. Embalmers took out the internal organs and dried the body. They then made the skin flexible by applying oil and gave back the body its shape by filling it with sawdust and winding it with linen straps. Only the pharaohs and the rich could afford this. All the others were buriedin the desert Ernesto Schiaparelli.

The word 'mummy' often makes us think about the tightly wound dead Egyptian pharaohs in painted coffins. Although the Egyptian mummies are the most famous they have been found in many places throughout the world. Even the lncas, the ancient chinese, and the persians sometimes embalmed their dead, so that their bodies could not decay. sometimes the bodies remained well preserved over thousands of years naturally.

They got stiffened in the frost and never thawed later. These bodies were in a way 'freeze-dried'.OMG 5300-years-old ' Otzi,' which was discovered by the mountaineers in 199 in the Otztal Alps on the border of Austria and italy, is one such natural mummy. Even today, the dead are embalmed for posterity.

Come to the OMG HISTORY

Who found the first mummy?

Princess Ahmose was buried in tomb QV47 in the Valley of the Queens. Her mummy was discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli during his excavations from 1903-1905. AhmoseI's mummy was discovered in 1881 within the Deir el-Bahri Cache. His name was later found written in hieroglyphs when the mummy was unwrapped.By the 4th dynasty (about 2600 BC) Egyptian embalmers began to achieve "true mummification" through a process of

evisceration. Much of this early experimentation with mummification in Egypt is unknown.The first mummy to be discovered in South Africa was found in the Baviaanskloof Wilderness Area by Dr. Johan Binneman in 1999. Nicknamed Moses, the mummy was estimated to be around OMG 2,000 years old.