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==== Sleeping bags ==== | ==== Sleeping bags ==== | ||
- | Tourists always take with them a sleeping bag that is narrower | + | Tourists always take with them a sleeping bag that is narrowand er at the bottom, wider at the top. The person inside it is similar to a mummy. The designer was inspired to create such a sleeping bag by mummies. [([[https:// |
==== Embalming for anyone? ==== | ==== Embalming for anyone? ==== | ||
- | Anyone who had the appropriate amount of money could order the embalming of a corpse. Embalming was very expensive because the process of mummification was long and consisted of several stages, performed by different people: | + | Anyone who had the appropriate amount of money could order the embalming of a corpse. Embalming was very expensive because the process of mummification was long and consisted of several stages, performed by many different people: |
==== Paint from the mummies ==== | ==== Paint from the mummies ==== | ||
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==== Mummies in peat bogs ==== | ==== Mummies in peat bogs ==== | ||
- | There have been lots of mummies found in Europe that have succumbed to this process by accident, the mummies in peat bogs. People ended up in peat bogs by accident | + | There have been lots of mummies found in Europe that have succumbed to the mummification |
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+ | ==== Hearts ==== | ||
+ | Thanks to modern research methods, scientists found that the only organ that remained in the mummy' | ||
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+ | ==== First to be mummified ==== | ||
+ | According to Egyptian mythology, the god Osiris was the first to be mummified, but archaeologists have so far failed to find his corpse. After Osiris' | ||
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+ | ==== Frankenstein mummies ==== | ||
+ | In 2001, near the Scottish coast, scientists found mummies that are 3,000 years old. After research, it was found that the mummies consisted of various body parts. Scientists believe that the corpses were mummified in bogs, and after 300-600 years they were reburied and thrown into graves in random order. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Herodotus ==== | ||
+ | The Greek historian Herodotus was the first to describe the process of embalming a corpse after he visited Egypt in 450 BC. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Live mummies ==== | ||
+ | Japanese Singon monks prepared for embalming while they were still alive. They strived to enter deep and eternal meditation. Over the course of 800 years, some monks managed to achieve certain results. At first, they purified the body and spirit, then asked to be buried alive with a tube that provided oxygen. They died not from suffocation, | ||
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+ | ==== Unrolling mummies ==== | ||
+ | In Victorian times, one of the pastimes was to hold parties called mummy unrolling. Besides, in those days, mummies were a basic ingredient in many medicines. Doctors convinced their patients that they had medicinal properties. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Open mouth ==== | ||
+ | During excavations, | ||
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+ | ==== Cursed tombs ==== | ||
+ | There is an Egyptian myth according to which all tombs are covered by a curse and those who disturb the dead will pay for it with life or disease. We know many stories about how archaeologists after they excavated a pharaoh' | ||
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+ | ==== Secret to majesty ==== | ||
+ | King Charles II of England was convinced that the dust that covers mummies contains the secret to majesty. He had several mummies of his own, from which he collected the dust and rubbed it into the skin. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Mask of Tutankhamun ==== | ||
+ | On the faces of many pharaohs, there were golden masks, covered with various magical spells. There is a hypothesis that they helped to get into the world of the dead. Tutankhamon' | ||
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