Mummies

When we hear the word “mummy” we usually think of horror movies, cartoons and our favorite dress up holiday “Halloween”, but we never really think of the deep significant value mummies have given our world. On a recent trip to the Houston Museum of Natural Science I discover the fascinating truth behind mummies. I had the great pleasure of exploring one of the most amazing exhibits called “Mummies of the World”, and got to learn many interesting things like what they stand for and most importantly

The Mummy Throughout history, the mummy has been stereotyped as no more than an egyptian deceased wrapped in cloth, whose spirit returns from the dead in order to haunt mankind. However, as literature and mythology present, Mummies exist in modern context promptly as scorned lovers, scientists, past rulers, wronged souls, or a combination of all. In deconstructing the Mummy, the statement of “We are creatures that require social interaction” often comes to mind. After all, even in death we are infrequently

The Mummy portrayed in the starting of the film, where Imhotep lies in his tomb, is different from Imhotep who featured wrinkles in the rest of the film. Legendary make-up artist Jack Pierce created the iconic look in ‘The Mummy,’ where he made Boris Karloff have relatively less make up for the most the movie except for the opening scene, where Imhotep rises from his tomb covered in bandages. To achieve the ancient rugged look, Pierce used a combination of cotton, collodion, spirit gum, and linen

The most noticing aspect of Egyptian religion is its obsession with immortality and the belief of life after death. This sculpture can show you this on how mummification gave upbringing to complex arts in ancient Egypt. The sculpture is the Mummy Case of Paankhenamun. The artwork is currently viewed at The Art Institute of Chicago. The sculpture was from the third period, Dynasty 22, in ancient Egypt. However, the sculpture has many features to it that makes it so unique in ancient Egypt from any

Introduction: Mummies adorn the exhibits of hundreds of American and European museums alike and their presence in popular culture of our society has been a consistent one for over a hundred years. To the men and women of the twenty-first century, the mummy still represents the mysterious and the ancient. And although we are influenced by the images and concepts of the numerous literary works, plays, paintings, and films that depict the mummy in a state of resurrection, for the modern audience the mummy is ultimately

In my research, I choose mummies because of the fascinating fact in our history every now and then. Honestly, every single time I wonder why we have mummies? or mummies are real? Or just a creativity from the mind of people. Now, I know that they're real for sure because of the artifact that scientist, researcher, and anthropologist found. Before that, I want to know how did they find out? Who told them that mummy really exists? Do they conduct tons of research before they go to other places to places

Egypt looked like or what they did back then. The term mummy means a person that has passed away; and their body is preserved. The most acknowledged mummies are from ancient Egypt. The Egyptian's believed that a preserved body was used for the afterlife. There are two well known mummies; they are Rames the second and Tutankhamun or better known as (King Tut). They were both popular Pharaoh’s in ancient Egypt. A few of the first mummies in Egypt did not go through

I could never imaging if a real mummy would lying and holding his arms still in front of my eyes, just like a real human sleeping in the tomb. My dream come true, I visited to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum last year!!! It is very great and I really love to go there. The feeling is look like watching the Hollywood movie Mummy in the movie theater. The tomb seemed creepy to me. It looked real and I scared to enter in, its look like the mummy will stand up, come and eat you. I hesitated for a second

A soap mummy is a human corpse that is naturally mummified due to the process of adipocire. Adipocere, also known as corpse wax or the fat of graveyards, is a product of decomposition that turns body fat into a soap-like substance. Corpse wax forms through a process called saponification and tends to develop when body fat is exposed to anaerobic bacteria in a warm, damp, alkaline environment, either in soil or water. Grave wax has a soft, greasy gray appearance when it starts to form, and as

comes up with tombs with mummies is that they all have curses and anyone who enters or sees the mummy will be killed within the next 24 hours. One curse that is worldwide famous is the curse of the Pharaoh where anyone who disturbed king Tut`s tomb would be killed by a horrendous curse. The same with a mummy found in the Alps in Italy that was named after the mountain it was found on it is commonly known as Otzi, he also has a horrendous cures that ends with death. Both mummies have curses that are