Ok, you hear
the word mummy and you think of a King Tut or a scary movie about
cursed, stiff-legged walking Egyptian bundle of dirty bandages.
Just for the record, there are a lot of other types of mummies
that have been intentionally, or accidentally processed in sand,
tar, mud, freeze-dried in a cave, or sacrificed in a bog. Even
the recently discovered mammoth in Siberia is considered a mummy.
Not to be mistaken for a fossil or skeleton, which have no remaining
flesh, organs or muscles preserved. A mummy is simply a preserved
old dead body (animal or human).
copyright James M. Deem
