No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

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* Ginger ( mummy ), believed to be the earliest known ancient mummified body

His mummified body was later exhumed in 1856, when the monastery was under repair.

His ( alleged ) mummified body could be seen in Fårevejle, in the church near the castle, until a few decades ago.

Sometimes the body of the bull was mummified and fixed in a standing position on a foundation made of wooden planks.

Since she also was goddess of war, and thus had an additional association with death, it was said that she wove the bandages and shrouds worn by the mummified dead as a gift to them, and thus she began to be viewed as a protector of one of the Four sons of Horus, specifically, of Duamutef, the deification of the canopic jar storing the stomach, since the abdomen ( often mistakenly associated as the stomach ) was the most vulnerable portion of the body and a prime target during battle.

Eventually the Sun meets the body of the mummified Osiris.

Such punishment served to make a strong example since it emphasized the gravity of their treason for ancient Egyptians who believed that one could only attain an afterlife if one's body was mummified and preserved — rather than being destroyed by fire.

A naturally mummified body in the British Museum.

Inside is a Plateresque choir, Neoclassic altarpieces and the mummified body of the beatified Sebastian de Aparicio.

In sufficiently dry environments, an embalmed body may end up mummified and it is not uncommon for bodies to remain preserved to a viewable extent after decades.

His body was quickly mummified before performing a proper autopsy to find the exact result of death, a normal procedure in such situations.

In July 2010, a centenarian listed as the oldest living male in Tokyo, registered to be aged 111, was found to have died some 30 years before ; his body was found mummified in its bed, resulting in a police investigation into centenarians listed over the age of 105.

After Thutmose's body is mummified, the player and Ann find Sir Vile hiding behind a piece of the wall depicting Amun Re and arrest him.

Kwäday Dän Ts ’ ìnchi ( meaning Long Ago Person Found in Southern Tutchone ), or Canadian Ice Man, is a naturally mummified body found in Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia, by a group of hunters.

In Teppic's time this has been forgotten and the body is mummified in the Egyptian manner.

The 2008 science fiction film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull begin in " Hanger 51 " ( an allusion to Area 51 and Hangar 18 within the base ,) and had Dr. Jones lead Soviet agents to a mummified Alien body from the Roswell Site, contained in a chest labeled " Roswell, New Mexico.

This resurrected mummy character was revived by combining his original soul with his mummified body using a magical spell granted by the god Osiris himself ( in the case of Egyptian mummies ), ancient Inca spirits ( in the case of South American mummies ) or the Eight Immortals, in the case of Chinese mummies.

During the story, Rampa meets yetis and, at the end of the book, he encounters a mummified body that was him in an earlier incarnation.

It was a common feature of sideshows, which was presented as the mummified body of a creature that was supposedly half mammal and half fish, a version of traditional mermaid stories.

In 2006, a valuable archeological finding was uncovered: a boat-shaped coffin wrapped in ox hide, containing the mummified body of a young woman.

His mummified body and wrecked aircraft will not be discovered until February 1962.

* February 12 – French troops discover the mummified body of William N. " Bill " Lancaster and the wreckage of his Avro Mark VIA Avian Southern Cross in the Sahara Desert.

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city, which has now become a ghost town.

The tomb is now lost, and the mummified cat found in the church tower in 1949 during a search for its location probably dates to the time of the Wren restoration.

In the Royal Mummy Cache at DB320, an ivory canopic coffer was found that was inscribed with the name of Hatshepsut and contained a mummified liver or spleen as well as the tooth that now has been found to fit the second mummy in the wet nurse's tomb.

Ongoing excavations by the German Archaeological Institute at the island's ancient town site have uncovered many findings that are now on display in the museum, including a mummified ram of Khnum.

The school building is now a genocide museum exhibiting the skeletons and mummified bodies of some of the thousands of people killed there.

Tomb DB320 ( now usually referred to as TT320 ) is located next to Deir el-Bahri, in the Theban Necropolis, opposite modern Luxor contained an extraordinary cache of mummified remains and funeral equipment of more than 50 kings, queens, royals and various nobility.

According to Paiute oral history, the Si-Te-Cah are a legendary tribe whose mummified remains were discovered ( under four feet of guano ) by miners in what is now known as “ Lovelock Cave ” in Lovelock, Nevada, United States.

Recently Thelxinoe died but Aigialeus mummified her body in the Egyptian manner and now continues to eat, sleep, and talk with her.

It includes a mausoleum housing the mummified bodies of Isabel Segura ( a rich lady ) and Diego de Marcilla ( a poor man who battled at Crusades to earn some money with the intention to return to get married with Isabel ) whose love ended tragically.

Isadora's mummified remains are still present, encased in glass, in her mausoleum — a prominent building at Tuna el-Gebel.

Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.

A mummified man, determined to be 5, 000 years old, was discovered on a glacier at the Austrian – Italian border in 1991.

Egyptians also believed that being mummified and put in a sarcophagus ( an ancient Egyptian " coffin " carved with complex symbols and designs, as well as pictures and hieroglyphs ) was the only way to have an afterlife.

Recent discoveries by the American University in Cairo of mummified dachshund-like dogs from ancient Egyptian burial urns may lend credibility to this theory.

His black skin was symbolic of the color of mummified flesh and the fertile black soil that Egyptians saw as a symbol of resurrection.

The oldest known naturally mummified human corpse is a severed head dated as 6, 000 years old, found in 1936 at the site named Inca Cueva No. 4 in South America.

* Semper Mars ( 1998 ) by Ian Douglas depicts the Cydonia region of Mars as home to ancient alien ruins where mummified early humans are found in 2040.

A living, sacred ram, was kept at Mendes and worshipped as the incarnation of the god, and upon death, the rams were mummified and buried in a ram-specific necropolis.

This study focuses not only on pathogenic conditions observable in bones or mummified soft tissue, but also on nutritional disorders, variation in stature or the morphology of bones over time, evidence of physical trauma, or evidence of occupationally derived biomechanic stress.

Another major genocide-related memorial center attracting tourists is the Murambi Genocide Memorial Site housed in the former Murambi Technical School where 45, 000 were murdered and 850 skeletons and mummified remains of the victims are on display.

Salukis appear on Egyptian tombs increasingly commonly from The Middle Kingdom ( 2134 BC-1785 BC ) onward, and have often been found mummified alongside the bodies of the Pharaohs in the Pyramids.

The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age.

Similar bog chemistry was at work in conserving Haraldskær Woman, also discovered in Jutland as a mummified Iron Age specimen.

Volume II of the similar series of novels Tales of the Slayer ( 2003 ) features two stories about Buffy ; the character battles a mummified spirit in Todd A. McIntosh's " All That You Do Comes Back Unto Thee ," while Jane Espenson's " Again Sunnydale " sees a season six-era Buffy sent back in time to high school, when her mother is still alive but Dawn does not exist.

Bentham had intended the Auto-icon to incorporate his actual head, mummified to resemble its appearance in life.

These mummified remains may have been of people who spoke Indo-European languages, that remained in use in the Tarim Basin, in the modern day Xinjiang region, until replaced by Turkic influences from the northern Xiongnu Empire, and by Chinese influences from the eastern Han Dynasty, who spoke a Sino-Tibetan language.

Recent studies applying molecular markers, in addition to studying the skull and skeletal morphology of current and mummified animals, revealed that the ancestor is most likely Cavia tschudii.