Egypt
- Old Kingdom Mummy To Go On View At Carlos Museum
Access Atlanta (Howard Pousner) With photo. A rarely displayed Egyptian mummy, the oldest in the Western Hemisphere, will be the focus of an exhibit next year at Emory University, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned. The mummy, which dates to...
- Exhibition: The Mummy Chamber In New York, Summer 2010
http://artmuseumjournal.com/mummy_chamber.aspx The Mummy Chamber, a long-term installation of more than 170 artifacts that explores the ancient Egyptians' complex funerary rituals and beliefs associated with mummification, opens at the Brooklyn Museum...
- The Mummies And Their Age-old Tales
JoonAng Daily With photographs. In ancient Egypt, people believed in the afterlife and thought that eternal life was possible when the body, soul and life force were wholly merged. They also believed that the soul and the body separate at the time of...
- Egyptian Mummies As Commodities
Suite 101 (Jenn Ostrowski) From medicine to entertainment, many ancient Egyptians did not get the peace they sought after death despite their efforts to preserve their dead. Ancient Egyptians believed that after death their souls would survive, and that...
- Mummified Leg
A leg has been mummified in traditional mummification technique from Pharaonic Egypt. The picture says the mummy pictured is Thutmosis IV when it is actually the mummy identified as Thutmosis II even though there is a chance that he is actually Thutmosis...
Egypt
Many ancient cultures practiced mummification
http://www.gdherald.com/articles/2005/10/25/news/news04.txt
"Many ancient cultures practiced mummification . . . . Mummies have been found in the Middle East, Andes mountains of South America, Peruvian desert, western China and parts of Scandinavia. The most widely-known mummies are Egyptian, they are the focus of much folklore and superstition. Egyptians practiced mummification as early as 3400 B.C. Ancient Egyptians believed in a spiritual rebirth after death. It was important mummified corpses resemble the living person because the soul used them in the afterlife . . . . Families concerned for the safety of their deceased loved ones often carved curses into tomb and crypt doors. A mummy onboard has even been blamed for the sinking of the Titanic".
See the full article for more about Egyptian practices of mummification.
- Old Kingdom Mummy To Go On View At Carlos Museum
Access Atlanta (Howard Pousner) With photo. A rarely displayed Egyptian mummy, the oldest in the Western Hemisphere, will be the focus of an exhibit next year at Emory University, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned. The mummy, which dates to...
- Exhibition: The Mummy Chamber In New York, Summer 2010
http://artmuseumjournal.com/mummy_chamber.aspx The Mummy Chamber, a long-term installation of more than 170 artifacts that explores the ancient Egyptians' complex funerary rituals and beliefs associated with mummification, opens at the Brooklyn Museum...
- The Mummies And Their Age-old Tales
JoonAng Daily With photographs. In ancient Egypt, people believed in the afterlife and thought that eternal life was possible when the body, soul and life force were wholly merged. They also believed that the soul and the body separate at the time of...
- Egyptian Mummies As Commodities
Suite 101 (Jenn Ostrowski) From medicine to entertainment, many ancient Egyptians did not get the peace they sought after death despite their efforts to preserve their dead. Ancient Egyptians believed that after death their souls would survive, and that...
- Mummified Leg
A leg has been mummified in traditional mummification technique from Pharaonic Egypt. The picture says the mummy pictured is Thutmosis IV when it is actually the mummy identified as Thutmosis II even though there is a chance that he is actually Thutmosis...