mummies & mummification

The as-yet unnamed mummy decoration was stolen from The Endeavour public house over the annual Goth Weekend at Hallowe'en From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-67727151 "A pub landlady has said she wants her "mummy" back after it was stolen on Halloween. The prop was...

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I couldn't find a general thread on the Mummy's Curse so here it is. http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-05-24/1009681.html A bit of a non-story but we'll just have to await the first deaths............ Emps

I'm going to be monitoring this news anyway so I thought I might as well share ;) I'm separting it form the Incorruptibles: http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8950 even thouh it may have some bearing on it as these are finds without any religious claims...

mummified cats Hi, I am new on this list and this may sound peculiar but I am working on an online cat-a-log, being a catalog of mummified cats found in houses, churches,deliberatley placed there as a form of foundationsacrifice, all information is welcome, though some of these have a...

How To Make A Mummy German Team Finds Secret of Mummies' Preservation By Chris Slocombe LONDON (Reuters) - A German research team has unravelled the mystery of how the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead, using sophisticated science to track the preservative to an extract of the cedar...

Thousands of mummified cats were quite famously ground up for fertiliser, which is one of the reasons very few of this type of mummy survive today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A641378 Link is dead. No alternative or archived version found. There's a cat mummy in the medical...

Mummies for fuel. The excellent 'Unearthing Mysteries' on Radio 4 (available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagainflash.shtml), had a programme on the modern investigations into the diseases suffered by ancient egyptians. They also mentioned the occurance of mummies being shipped...

Just watched the programme on Channel 4 re Buddhist monks who, through a process of starvation, eating pine bark and mineral deposits rich in arsenic, and finally walling themselves up to die, managed to convert their bodies into mummies with no intervention after death at all. This raises so...

I've always found the story of this little mummified man to be interesting. Here is a link to a different from usual photo of him: http://www.cryptozoology.com/gallery/gallery_show.php?id=165 Link is dead; website is MIA (having transferred to Facebook). But I was wondering - what is the...

The uncorruptables?? I read about these people in a old forteantimes, can't remember which issue. It was about these people in either Central or Southern America where after they died they didn't decompose or only partially decomposed. The natives put them on display in a little makeshift...