#mummies

[diaryofasugarfiend]

It's my 13 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[manchicasanchez]

[jerzydrozd]

Panel 2 is my favorite so far. That moment when two heavies have to put aside their differences because a bigger problem shows up. New page (2-page spread) of 🚂The Case of the Mummy Express🚂 is up: https://jdrozd.com/comic/the-case-of-the-mummy-express-pgs-52-53/?sid=66417

[qalladion]

let's all learn about various other ice mummies together. I know Ötzi is so very fascinating because of his incredibly powerful oldness, but promise you'll learn about at least two other instances of ice mummification? please? for me?

[mummies]

Woman died watching TV and her mummified body found 42 years later - AOL

Hedviga Golik was last seen in 1966 and neighbors assumed she had simply moved out of her apartment, but police made a chilling discovery 42

[stevensaus]

Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem?

Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

[memoriae-lectoris]

Across the early modern period, there are four broad types of ‘mummy’ [...].

One is mineral pitch;

the second the matter derived from embalmed Egyptian corpses;

the third, the relatively recent bodies of travellers, drowned by sandstorms in the Arabian deserts;

and the fourth, flesh taken from fresh corpses (usually those of executed felons, and ideally within about three days) and then treated and dried by Paracelsian practitioners.

The unwary reader should be warned that names for these different types can be misleading, sometimes reflecting the medical preferences of a particular author. Most straightforwardly, mineral pitch can be known as bitumen, bitumen indaicum, pissasphaltum, ‘natural mummy’, or ‘transmarine mummy’.

The Egyptian variety can be described as ‘true mummy’, or ‘mumia sincere’, though these terms are also quite frequently used by Paracelsians. Less ambiguous names for this category are ‘foreign mummy’ and ‘mumia sepulchorum’. The most common description for the drowned corpses of the deserts seems to be ‘Arabian mummy’ (after the desert region itself).