Why are there mummies What is a mummy

After a person dies, he wants to preserve the corpse and make a mummy.

Mummification has two meanings, one is used to denote a dry corpse that has been preserved for a long time, and specifically refers to the undecomposed corpse that was preserved by the ancient Egyptians with special antiseptics and burial methods. Another meaning is used as a metaphor for rigid things.

Mummies can also be used to describe a person's thinking that is more rigid and inflexible. When a person comes to the situation where their limbs look uncoordinated, and their body is very stiff, and they feel like a robot without the ability to think, it can also be represented by mummification.

Mummies don't just come from Egypt, they come from all over the world and have the potential to be found on every continent. In ancient Egypt, tomb robbers were punished if they were caught, usually by whipping the soles of their feet and then piercing the soles of their feet with a sharp wooden stick.

Under normal circumstances, human remains (corpses) in nature, due to the joint action of the body's own intracellular hydrolase enzymes and various external bacterial enzymes, its various tissues (except bones) often gradually dissolve, decay and disappear, leaving only the skeleton of the corpse with a pair of fronts. This has been confirmed in the excavations of ancient tombs. And under some special preservation conditions or after special embalming treatment, the corpse will become a mummy.

A mummy is an incompletely dissolved, decomposed preserved corpse (non-ossified corpse) that appears to be extremely weight loss, shriveled and shrunken, dark brown or light brown in color; **Loss of elasticity and toughness, similar to leather; The organs and tissues in the body have significantly reduced in size, become lighter in weight, and have a stiffer texture, making them appear very dry.

The formation of mummies is mainly closely related to the surrounding environment in which their bodies are placed or preserved. Mummies found in China are mostly found in hot, dry, well-ventilated desert areas (such as the Lop Nur region of Xinjiang), as well as in ancient tombs or wooden coffins with high seals, low oxygen levels, and dry conditions. In the process of mummification, due to the extremely low oxygen and no air circulation, the water contained in the corpse has been evaporated and depleted, and the environment is very unfavorable for the reproduction of bacteria, causing the body to decay and stop.

In addition, if the deceased is a newborn or elderly, he or she is emaciated or dehydrated before his death, which is also conducive to the formation of mummies.

The scientific study of mummies, especially ancient mummies, is often of great value for the acquisition of knowledge of anthropology and the history of human development. var _hmt = hmt ||function()

Mummies are corpses that can be preserved for a long time under artificial embalming or natural conditions. The word mummy is derived from the Persian word for wax, and was used by Europeans to refer to the corpses preserved in ancient Egypt with antiseptic spices, and since the Ming Dynasty in China, it has only been transliterated as mummy.

The ancient Egyptians believed that a person could be resurrected after death, and the condition for resurrection was to preserve the body.

To make a mummy, the body needs to be dug up and eviscerated, soaked in salt water, filled the abdominal cavity with frankincense, cinnamon and other spices, sutured and then immersed in a special anti-finger decay solution, taken out after 70 days, then wrapped in linen, filled with spices, and coated with resin, to make a mummy.

Some scientists hope that in the future, after obtaining the genes of mummies, they will be able to replicate their genes into new living people through replication technology.

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There are still many mummies, that is, artificial dried corpses, in the world, and of course, they also include our China, and the reasons for their formation are different. It's human nature to be curious about mummies, early human history, and other things.