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mumya
Also known as mummies
300px|thumb|A mummified man likely to be Ramesses I A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions. Some authorities restrict the use of the term to bodies deliberately embalmed with chemicals, but the use of the word to cover accidentally desiccated bodies goes back to at least the early 17th century.
AI overview
A mummy is a preserved dead body—human or animal—whose soft tissues have survived through intentional chemical treatment or accidental exposure to extreme conditions like cold, dryness, or lack of air. Mummies matter because they provide rare direct evidence of how people and animals looked and lived in the past, offering insights that written records alone cannot supply.
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Research
2,303 papers- Methods in mummy research.ReviewAnthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur · 2009Lynnerup NDOI: 10.1127/0003-5548/2009/0028
- Multidisciplinary analysis of a mummy from the War of the Pacific.Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur · 2022Saldías E, Valdebenito G, Zamora L et al.DOI: 10.1127/anthranz/2022/1543
- Mummy DNA unravels ancient Egyptians' ancestry.Nature · 2017Watson TDOI: 10.1038/546017a
- Short Review: The Use of Conventional X-rays in Mummy Studies.ReviewAnatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2015Lynnerup N, Rühli FDOI: 10.1002/ar.23147