#Mummies

[deep-dark-fears]

Can I pick your brain for a minute? A fear submitted to Deep Dark Fears - thanks!

You can find original art in my shop!

#comics #Deep Dark Fears #Fran Krause #scary #fear #egypt #mummy #mummies #brain #worry

[yesterdaysprint]

Pick-Me-Up magazine, September 25, 1897

#mummy #cats #animals #mummies #vintage #history #1890s #victorian

[heroicallynude]

The ethics of displaying human remains as museum objects

I'm writing an article for school about the ethics of displaying human bodies as museum objects and part of my thesis is looking into what the public thinks about human remains being displayed at museums.

With that, I want to know what that opinion is. So I was hoping that you would answer this poll for me. If I get enough votes, I'm going to use the results in my article, so i hope you'll be willing to answer and reblog to spread it!

I know the answers arent super nuanced, but i want the results to be somewhat easy to navigate, as it'll make it easier for me to use in my article.

No answer is wrong! This isn't a test of morality or a judgement on what you think, this is just an attempt to sus out what the overall opinion on this topic is.

#tagamemnon #egypt #ancient greece #bog bodies #mummies #history #museums #Had to redo the poll bc i forgot to add a 'no opinion' option OMG

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Mummies in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, Italy. 

#Mummies #Capuchin #catacombs #Palermo #Capuchin catacombs #Italy #monks #mummifying #brothers #skeletons #skull #skeletonization #memento mori #mummy

[texaschainsawmascara]

Universal Classic Monsters popcorn buckets by General Cinema Corp., 1960s

#universal classic monsters #universal monsters #universal studios monsters #universal studios #horror #60s #the wolf man #frankenstein #the mummy #dracula #mummy #mummies #the wolfman #wolves #monsters #vampires #vampire #wolf #movie #film

[nobrashfestivity]

Cat Mummies from Ancient Egypt at the British Museum, London, UK.

#cats #mummies #ancient egypt

[shapeshiftinterest]

dry bones bowser giving a piranha plant bouquet to balloon world luigi disguised as a mummy/ chincho

luigi was doing balloon world stuff when he gets called for another haunted mansion mission

note: luigi is alive in this, bowser's the undead one

luigi: eh? for-a luigi?

dry bowser: /nods enthusiastically/

bowuigi halloween event

prompt mix:

undead

haunted house

#art mine #2023 art mine #digital art #shapeshiftinterest #games #mario #bowser #luigi #bowuigi #LGBTQA #bowuigi halloween event #theme event #halloween #clothing swap #alternate universe #dry bowser #dry bones #mummies #monsters #boos #ghosts #piranha plants #flowers #it's kinda like the corpse bride in a way

[archaeologicalnews]

2 golden tongues symbolizing 'flesh of the gods' unearthed in ancient Egyptian mummies

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered two mummies outfitted with golden tongues at the ancient town of Oxyrhynchus, bringing the total number of golden tongues found at the location to 16, archaeologists say.

During the Roman period (29 B.C. to A.D. 641), the Egyptians put golden tongues inside the mouths of some mummies so that the mummy would be able to use their tongue in the afterlife and because the ancient Egyptians believed that gold was the "flesh of the gods," Esther Pons Mellado and Maite Mascort, co-directors of the archaeological mission of Oxyrhynchus, told Live Science in an email. Mummies with gold tongues were thought to have the ability to speak with Osiris in the underworld of the afterlife. Read more.

#archaeology #archeology #egypt #mummies #tongues #golden tongues

[gerardwaygirlmoments]

#vampire #ghosts #mummies #zombies #revenants #liches #gods #angels #demons #fairieis #genies #undeath #immortality #fantasy #horror #polls

[paganimagevault]

The Beauty of Loulan mummy 1800 BCE

"Then a little gasp. “Weiguoren!” (A foreigner!), one young woman exclaimed to her friends. They were touring the museum earlier this month on a Chinese public holiday. Nearly 4,000 years after her death, the so-called Beauty of Loulan still has the ability to amaze. She is one of hundreds of Bronze Age mummies discovered in the shifting desert sands of northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, where thousands more still lie buried. Unlike the embalmed mummies of ancient Egypt, they were preserved naturally by the elements, which in some ways makes them more interesting. They represent an extended span of history dating from 1800 BC to as recently as the Ching dynasty (1644-1912) and a range of human experience. Some were kings and warriors, others housewives and farmers.

“They were ordinary people who lived and died in Xinjiang over the ages,” said Wang Binghua, a retired archaeologist who exhumed many of the mummies. The most famous of them, the Beauty of Loulan, was unearthed in 1980 by Chinese archaeologists who were working with a television crew on a film about the Silk Road near Lop Nur, a dried salt lake 120 miles from Urumqi that has been used by the Chinese for nuclear testing.

Thanks to the extreme dryness and the preservative properties of salt, the corpse was remarkably intact — her eyelashes, the fine hair on her skin, even the lines on her skin were visible. She was buried face up about 3 feet under, wrapped in a simple woolen cloth and dressed in a goatskin, a felt hat and leather shoes. But what was most remarkable about the corpse — believed to date to about 1,800 BC — was that she appeared to be Caucasian, with her telltale large nose, narrow jaw and reddish-brown hair. The discovery turned on its head assumptions that Caucasians didn’t frequent these parts until at least a thousand years later, when trading between Europe and Asia began along the Silk Road."

-Cultural Exchange: China’s surprising Bronze Age mummies. Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times

#mummies #ancient history #history #museums #archaeology #anthropology #xinjiang

[mirialan]

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#all saints street #web series #crunchyroll #anime #IT'S SO CUTE #pls watch #i will be #angels #demons #vampire #werewolves #mummies #supernatural #Youtube #chinese anime

[lustingfood]

Mummy Chocolate Pies (x)

#food #food porn #chocolate #chocolate pies #pies #hand pies #mummies #dessert #pie #food gif #gifset #gif #mine #halloween #happy halloween #spooktober #icing

[faraige]

spike mentioning casually that he has eaten mummy in the past and buffy being kinda horrified at first thinking about ampata but then asking if it's a demon thing and spike going "oh, no, it was back when I was human"

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #buffy summers #buffy #spike #on the long list of 'spike is *like that* in part because he's a victorian' #shut up faraige #mummy #mummies #victorians

[radiojamming]

PLEASE tell us more about mummy types, i know ice is your fave so feel free to go ham on that but all of them are so interesting to me

drives up in my cozy coupe that has MUMMY MOBILE written in sharpie on the side (ALSO PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN LOOKING THESE UP; SOME OF THEM LOOK VERY GNARLY)

ICE/PERMAFROST - If you've followed me for a little while, you probably know more about these than the average fella! These are your Beechey Island Trio, your Ötzi the Iceman. Ice keeps bacteria from turning the body into a smorgabord, thus keeping these people fresh (and fluid-filled) for hundreds to thousands of years. And maybe some day down the line, some nerd finds you and thinks you're beautiful and never shuts up about you.

THE BOG - It's Tumblr. You all know about The Bog. Bog bodies are essentially turned into leather purses by the tannins and the anaerobic qualities of The Bog, sometimes effectively snapshotting their causes of death (usually something violent). Special shoutouts to fan favorites like Tollund Man, Lindow Man/Pete Marsh, Yde Girl, Grauballe Man, and Windeby I. And Hozier, probably.

HOT, DRY DESERT AIR - Think the Atacama Desert, the Mummies of Guanajuato, or your pre-embalming times Egyptians. In fact, it was the natural qualities of desert air that probably tipped the Ancient Egyptians off to the fun and fabulousness of preservation. You dry out to potato chip crispness but lose all the wet bits. Also Anubis is probably repping you.

ARID, COLD MOUNTAIN AIR - Same idea as the desert as far as lack of humidity, but better for your skin. Mountaintop mummies are some of the best preserved in the whole world. La Doncella is a fantastic example, as are the rest of the Children of Llullaillaco or the Cherchen Man and Siberian Ice Maiden. Sometimes this was done on purpose (hi bog bodies), but sometimes people just go up to high altitudes, die, and stay there forever.

HONEY/MELLIFICATION - This one doesn't fit the bill of spontaneous mummification, which is what I study. Honey mummies are made on purpose, allegedly by feeding someone honey until they're dead, and then dunking them in a coffin full of honey for them to steep like tea for the next century or so, then digging them up and making medicine/snacks out of them. Lots of alleged's, but still pretty cool if you're into idk becoming one with the slime.

SALT - Human jerky! Salt does to you what it does to all the other edible meats, of which you're just another brand. Salt sucks all the moisture out and keeps you nice, fresh, and flavorful forever and ever. The Saltmen of Iran are Thee Pinnacle of this type of preservation. Bonus is that you get weirdly sparkly when you're salted like a slug.

SAPONIFICATION - You become soap. Actually, if you want to get technical, you turn into what's called corpse wax (which is a surprisingly badass name for turning into a human candle) or adipocere. Mrs. Ellenbogen of the Mütter Museum is probably the best example of this, but it also happens to, uh, cave divers. Which is another great reason not to go cave diving.

PRISTINE AIR OF A SACRED BUILDING - Catacomb mummies! Incorruptible saints! Sokushinbutsu! If you're stuck in a religious house of worship and it just so happens to have its own little ecosystem (usually pretty dry, probably full of resinous incense), there's a non-zero chance that you'll get preserved very similarly to the mountain mummies. Getting stuck in a crystal casket doesn't hurt either. (Disclaimer: this is semi-anthropogenic for those keeping score at home. Some of these mummies are preserved this way on purpose.)

TAR PITS - Like the bog, but hotter, stickier, and smellier. Go in the tar, have no oxygen causing you to fall apart, turn into another leather bag time capsule. This more often happens to animals like those in the La Brea Tar Pits than people. At least that we know of.

WEIRD, AS OF YET UNKNOWN MEANS - Can we say for sure that there was only one reason why Lady Dai/Xin Zhui's stayed so preserved for so long? What about the other wet mummies? What about ones people find in trees? Or whatever the hell was going on with Elmer McCurdy? Maybe it's not unknown, but it doesn't fit the bill of typical mummies, or there are so many factors at play leading to preservation that we can't just call it by one category.

#mummies #i could write about them forever

[beauty-funny-trippy]

Update to the Original Post re: Two Mexican Mummies Alleged to be Alien Beings

The Mexican Navy's Scientific Institute has just released the results of several laboratory tests (CT scans & X-rays) that were designed to check the skeletal structure of the bodies. Their findings dispute previous claims that the bodies were "recently manufactured" (assembled from various human and animal bones).

This new examination showed that the bodies have a "single skeleton that has not been joined to other pieces", and each was a "complete organic being"…"There is no evidence of any assembly, or manipulation of the skulls." They also found what they believe to be eggs in the pelvic area.

The director of the Mexican Navy's Scientific Institute said, "we are determining that it is an organism that was alive, was intact, was biological and was in gestation."

Most scientists, however, still believe the mummies to be some sort of fabrication. So although this latest evidence pointing to the bodies' authenticity has definitely added fuel to the fiery debate, it hasn't settled anything. The mystery as to any possible alien origin continues...

(source: EuroNews)

#aliens #Mexico #science #alien #Mexican #space #aesthetic #gif #mummies #outer space #cryptozoology #anthropology #paleontology #cryptids #beauty-funny-trippy #paranormal #Abbott Elementary #UFO #UAP #photography #flying saucer #government #extraterrestrial #archeology #ufology #Peru

[ancientorigins]

Some archaeological finds are so strange they threaten to rewrite history as we know it. Caucasian mummies buried with bronze tools in ancient China could do just that.

#Archaeology #Tarim Basin #Mummies #bronze age #Caucasian #China #ancient #history #ancient origins