Mummy
A mummy is a corpse that has been preserved from destruction and decay due to natural or human technology.
Most often, this is an intense drying and a disinfection (to avoid the proliferation of micro-organisms that cause putrefaction of the corpse). The earliest, dated 6000 years Carbon 14 is the mummified head of "Chulin" Ancient Egypt The Egyptians of antiquity who believed that the preservation of the corpse of Pharaoh (and community leaders and even some animals like cats , animal mummies were found by thousands in the sacred sites of ancient Egypt) assured him a lifetime eternal in the hereafter, used a complex set of techniques including the removal of viscera and brain , the washing soda , drying with hot sand, filling the body with tar , and bitumen and plants , protection outside of the mummy being supplemented by a package in a network of several strips. There were also Christian mummies in ancient Egypt. The gradual adoption of Christianity by the Egyptian people did not suddenly put an end to the practice of mummification. It is from the late second century that we find traces of Christianity including Alexandria , then gradually in the rest of the country. The practice of mummification was never banned by the Christian canonical texts. The fact that Christians believe in the resurrection of the dead fits perfectly with the desire to preserve the bodies. However the technique is different. There has been no trace of abdominal evisceration while the extraction of organs was a crucial step in mummification. The natron was also used. But the dead were not embalmed in the same way. A wooden label attached to the mummy placed in the Roman period , was used to identify the body among the dozens packed in the mass burials. Since the 1970s , was found in China several embalmed body in an exceptional state of preservation. The flexibility of the members, the conservation of all parts of the body is so exceptional that Chinese researchers call them "body cool" because they have nothing in the dried form of Egyptian mummies. A Chinese mummy was discovered in 1972 by archaeologist Paul Fabre and his son Francois-Maurice Fabre is the body of a woman discovered in situ, whose members have retained their flexibility (see next ). That same year eight mummified bodies were discovered at Qilakitsoq , in Greenland. In 1974 , at Mawangdui 300 km north of Jingzhou , a mummy was discovered, with characteristics of conservation are also exceptional. His blood has been analyzed ( group AB). The character's name was embalmed and Su-Hi, and was a judge, died -167 . In 2002 , at Lianyungang , on the coast, another mummy (a woman) was similar discovery in the same tomb with three other coffins containing the bones. Unfortunately, the ambient heat and lack of knowledge of archaeologists in the region have damaged the body quickly when discovered. Yangchen Zhou , a specialist in Shanghai, with several similar mummies, including the mummy of military Fuzheng Yan , in cold helped to limit the damage. But the best preserved of these bodies is undoubtedly that of Sing-Jul , discovered in 1972 near the city of Changsha in Hunan and autopsied by Peng Longxiang. The body was kept for 2150 years. The conservation status was exceptional, like the other mummies in China, she had the following features: This woman belonged to the aristocracy: it was the wife of the Marquis of Dai, died at about -160. Weight, 75 kg, as the furniture found in the tomb indicate that it was good living, even greedy. She was buried in a vault of 6 m 6 m, with a thousand objects, of which two-thirds were used to feast in eternal life. These included baskets containing all sorts of victuals: candied fruit, meat, eggs sparrows , swans , etc.. The catering most complete found in a tomb was also found. Mummies in a similar state of preservation have also been found in Viet Nam. The technique of preservation of these mummies is described in the Chinese section embalming. In 1983 , 96 corpses superbly preserved Chinchorro were left under a clump in the center of the city of Arica in Chile , see Chile's history. In 1995 , the mummy Inca nicknamed Juanita was discovered in Peru , near Arequipa , and mountaineering by anthropologist Johan Reinhard. It was about 6300 meters above sea level on the volcano Ampato, and could not be discovered by the melting of fifty meters of ice due to the eruption of a nearby volcano. The body of the girl, older than 500 years, is remarkably well preserved (first through the ice, now artificially) and can sometimes be seen at the museum Santuarios Andinos Arequipa. Many other civilizations are known to have performed the embalming of bodies at more or less large scale: On a more anecdotal, the mummy of Elmer McCurdy (American gangster of the nineteenth century ) was discovered by chance in an amusement park in 1976 by the crew of the series The Six Million Dollar Man. We sometimes found naturally mummified bodies, such as: The theme of the mummy and legends about a curse has inspired many movies, the most notable are: 
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