A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold ( ice mummies ), very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.

The oldest-known deliberate mummy is a child, one of the Chinchorro mummies found in the Camarones Valley, Chile, and dates from around 5050 BC.

* 1989 – In Egypt, a 4, 400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.

* Interactional: Here language is used to make contact with others and form relationships ( e. g. ' Love you, mummy ')

Ötzi (, also called Ötzi the Iceman, the Similaun Man, the Man from Hauslabjoch, Homo tyrolensis, and the Hauslabjoch mummy ) is a well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived about 3, 300 BCE.

He is Europe's oldest natural human mummy, and has offered an unprecedented view of Chalcolithic Europeans.

The skeleton ( From Greek σκελετός, skeletos = " dried-body ", " mummy ") is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism.

One is reminded of Ötzi the Iceman, a Copper Age mummy revealed by an Alpine melting glacier, who collapsed from loss of blood due to an arrow wound in the back.

In February 2010, the results of DNA tests confirmed that he was the son of Akhenaten ( mummy KV55 ) and Akhenaten's sister and wife ( mummy KV35YL ), whose name is unknown but whose remains are positively identified as " The Younger Lady " mummy found in KV35 .< ref name =" Hawass2010 "> Hawass, Zahi et al.

Iran, Pakistan and the Taliban all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a modern-day fake on April 17, 2001.

Ötzi the Iceman, a well-preserved mummy of a man frozen in Austrian Alps, is dated around 3300 BC.

The Wedjat or Eye of Horus is " the central element " of seven " gold, faience, carnelian and lapis lazuli " bracelets found on the mummy of Shoshenq II.

The first evidence of the silk trade is the finding of silk in the hair of an Egyptian mummy of the 21st dynasty, c. 1070 BC.

The mummy of a Scythian warrior, which is believed to be about 2, 500 years old, was a 30-to-40 year-old man with blond hair, and was found in the Altai, Mongolia ( see also Pazyryk burials ).

If the recent identification of her mummy ( see below ) is correct, however, the medical evidence would indicate that she suffered from diabetes and died from bone cancer which had spread throughout her body while she was in her fifties.

The most famous is perhaps that of Ötzi the Iceman, the mummy of a mountain hunter found in the Similaun glacier in South Tyrol, dating to c. 3000 BC ( Copper Age ).

The cause of damage to the mummy can only be speculated upon, and the alleged revenge is an unsubstantiated theory.

The wig found near the mummy is of unknown origin, and cannot be conclusively linked to that specific body.

On August 30, 2003, Reuters further quoted Hawass: " I'm sure that this mummy is not a female ", and " Dr Fletcher has broken the rules and therefore, at least until we have reviewed the situation with her university, she must be banned from working in Egypt.

" On different occasions, Hawass has claimed that the mummy is female and male.

A KMT article called " Who is The Elder Lady mummy?

It was argued that the evidence suggests that the mummy is around her mid-thirties or early forties, Nefertiti's guessed age of death.

" Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family " < cite > The Journal of the American Medical Association </ cite > p. 644 </ ref > They mostly claim the age of death as around 35, based on ' spinal degeneration ', which was not mentioned by any of the previous anthropological studies done on the mummy.

The report of Wenamun ( also known as Wen-Amon ) was made in Year 5 of Herihor and Herihor is mentioned in several Year 5 and Year 6 mummy linen graffitos.

While his tomb was mentioned as being " in a good state ", it is clear that his mummy was moved at some point afterward, as it was discovered in 1857 at Dra ' Abu el-Naga ', seemingly deliberately hidden in a pile of debris.

He maintained a career at Universal horror movies over the next few years, replaying the Wolf Man in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ( 1943 ), House of Frankenstein ( 1944 ), House of Dracula ( 1945 ) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( 1948 ); playing Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein ( 1942 ); and playing Kharis the mummy in The Mummy's Tomb ( 1942 ), The Mummy's Ghost ( 1944 ) and The Mummy's Curse ( 1944 ).

The Milan Papyrus, recovered from a dismantled mummy casing and published in 2001, has revealed the high esteem in which the poet Posidippus of Pella, an important composer of epigrams ( 3rd century BC ), held Sappho's " divine songs ".

The single extant Etruscan book, Liber Linteus, which was written on linen, survived only because it was used as mummy wrappings.

* The Liber Linteus, which was used for mummy wrappings ( at Zagreb, Croatia ).

Fortunately for Bacchylidean scholarship, a papyrus came to light in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century with a text of Greek uncials, which a local claimed to have found in a ransacked tomb, between the feet of a mummy.

The broken-off bent forearm found near the mummy, which had been proposed to have belonged to " The Younger Lady " mummy, was conclusively shown not to actually belong to it.

The single specimen of Gayet's mummy portraits from Antinoopolis for which information on its archaeological context is available.

In 1892, the German archaeologist von Kaufmann discovered the so-called " Tomb of Aline ", which held three mummy portraits ; among the most famous today.

One of the few examples besides the mummy portraits is the Severan Tondo, also from Egypt ( around 200 ), which, like the mummy portraits, is believed to represent a provincial version of contemporary style.

A direct link has been suggested, but it should be kept in mind that the mummy portraits represent only a small part of a much wider Graeco-Roman tradition, the whole of which later bore an influence on Late Antique and Byzantine Art.

It sometimes is suggested that Tiye's father, Yuya, was of Asiatic or Nubian descent due to the features of his mummy and the many different spellings of his name, which might imply it was a non-Egyptian name in origin.

* the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, which has the mummy of Ötzi the Iceman

According to Edward Chaney, " The distinctive, recumbent manner in which Freud poses so many of his sitters suggests the conscious of unconscious influence both of his grandfather's psychoanalytical couch and of the Egyptian mummy, his dreaming figures, clothed or nude, staring into space until ( if ever ) brought back to health and / or consciousness.

The Ancient Egyptians believed that preservation of the mummy empowered the soul after death, the latter of which would return to the preserved corpse.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead lists a spell which when spoken over a gold amulet hung around the mummy's neck, ensures that the mummy would regain use of its spine and be able to sit up.

Gradually, they realise they have all encountered It in various forms ( Ben as a mummy, Eddie as a leper, Bill as George, Richie as a werewolf, Stan as Its victims, Beverley as voices from the sink and Mike as a flesh eating bird ) and link it with a series of child murders which began with George.

Mountain province is known for its mummy caves which contain naturally mummified bodies which probably became so due to the humid atmosphere.

After the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun a close resemblance was noted between his mummy and the body found in KV55 and later tests showed both shared the same blood-group ( A2 ) and serum antigen ( MN ), all of which suggests Tutankhamun and the individual found in KV55 were closely related to each other, either as father and son, or brothers.

For these reasons the correctness of the age estimates was repeatedly called into question .< ref > Aldred, C., < cite > Akhenaten, King of Egypt </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 1988 ) p. 202 </ ref >< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > The Valley of the Kings </ cite > ( Kegan Paul, 1990 ) p. 49 </ ref > This opinion found support in the analysis of the skeletal remains which had indicated an age of death around 35 years ( based on dentition ) or even later ( based on anthropological standards and new X-rays of the long bones ).< ref > Reeves, C. N, < cite > Akhenaten, Egypt's False Prophet </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 2001 ) p. 84 </ ref > Some examinations placed the mummy at 20 – 25 years at death, while others assessed the mummy as 35 years.

The KV55 mummy was originally given an estimated age of death from about twenty to twenty five years, which was seen as being far too young to be Akhenaten himself .< ref > Aldred, C., < cite > Akhenaten, King of Egypt </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 1988 ) pp. 201-202 </ ref > However, this identification was problematic as the archaeological evidence and inscriptions found in this tomb suggested that the body in KV55 was that of Akhenaten .< ref > Davis, T. M., < cite > The Tomb of Queen Tiyi </ cite >, ( KMT Communications.