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Love and fear mummies (Why they are fascinating (Soviet Union inspired…
Love and fear mummies
Why they are fascinating
art of embalming cadavers
removing brains through nostrils
Bath 40 days in sodium Carbonate
Soviet Union inspired
Lenin also balmed
Body on Moskou Red Square
Julius Caesar and Augustus both visited Alexander the Great in Alexandria
1822
Jean François Champollion
Hieroglyphics got cracked by him
In Egypt since Napoleon's mission there
Whole world got fascinated
Romance of the mummy
1857
associated eroticism and death with mummies
Instant bestseller
Archaeologists discover body of young woman who is perfectly preserved
1892
Sir Conan Doyle releases "Lot No. 249"
About mummy coming alive and used as weapon
Inspires todays horror movies
Tutankhamun
Archaeologist died next year
Became known as curse on all people who helped
Created real fear with Mummies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/01/19/4000-year-old-egyptian-mummies-were-thought-to-be-brothers-genetics-tells-a-different-story/?utm_term=.f3cf366ac876