List of mummies
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This is a list of mummies
— corpses whose skin and organs have been preserved intentional or incidental.
Mummy
A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness , very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry...
— corpses whose skin and organs have been preserved intentional or incidental.
Name | Location | Approximate lifetime | Picture | Ref. Reference Reference is derived from Middle English referren, from Middle French rèférer, from Latin referre, "to carry back", formed from the prefix re- and ferre, "to bear"... |
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Akhenaten Akhenaten Akhenaten also spelled Echnaton,Ikhnaton,and Khuenaten;meaning "living spirit of Aten") known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV , was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC... |
Egypt Egypt Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world... |
died in 1336 or 1334 BCE | ||
Amenhotep III Amenhotep III Amenhotep III also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty. According to different authors, he ruled Egypt from June 1386 to 1349 BC or June 1388 BC to December 1351 BC/1350 BC after his father Thutmose IV died... |
Egypt | ruled Egypt 1391–1353 BCE or 1388–1351 BCE | ||
Asru | Egypt / England | c. 700 BCE | ||
Baishinni (梅唇尼) | Japan | |||
Jeremy Bentham Jeremy Bentham Jeremy Bentham was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism... |
England | 15 February 1748–6 June 1832 | ||
Borre Fen Man Borremose Bodies Borremose Bodies is the collective name for three bog bodies found in the Borremose peat bog in Himmerland, Denmark. Recovered between 1946 and 1948, the bodies of a man and two women have been dated to the Nordic Bronze Age... |
Denmark | c. 700 BCE | ||
Borre Fen Woman I Borremose Bodies Borremose Bodies is the collective name for three bog bodies found in the Borremose peat bog in Himmerland, Denmark. Recovered between 1946 and 1948, the bodies of a man and two women have been dated to the Nordic Bronze Age... |
Denmark | c. 400 BCE | ||
Borre Fen Woman II Borremose Bodies Borremose Bodies is the collective name for three bog bodies found in the Borremose peat bog in Himmerland, Denmark. Recovered between 1946 and 1948, the bodies of a man and two women have been dated to the Nordic Bronze Age... |
Denmark | c. 770 (+/-100) BCE | ||
Cao (曹) (cremated) | China | |||
Clonycavan Man Clonycavan Man Clonycavan Man is the name given to a well-preserved Iron Age bog body found in Clonycavan, County Meath, Ireland in March 2003. He has been calculated to have been approximately 1.57 metres in height, and is remarkable for the "gel" in his hair.... |
Ireland | died between 392 and 201 BCE | ||
Chinchorro mummies | Chile / Peru | 5000–3000 BCE | ||
Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin.... |
China | 1887–1975 | ||
Chiang Ching-kuo Chiang Ching-kuo Chiang Ching-kuo , Kuomintang politician and leader, was the son of President Chiang Kai-shek and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China... |
China | 1910–1988 | ||
Charles Eugène de Croÿ Charles Eugène de Croÿ Charles Eugène de Croÿ was a field marshal and duke from the House of Croÿ.His father was Jacques Philippe de Croÿ-Roeulx , a descendant of Jean III of Croy-Roeulx, son of Antoine le Grand.... |
Estonia | died 1702 | ||
Khorloogiin Choibalsan | Mongolia | 1895—1952 | ||
Dima The Mammoth Mummy | Siberia | about 40,000 years ago | ||
Djedmaatesank | Egypt / Canada | 22nd Dynasty | ||
Djedptahiufankh Djedptahiufankh Djedptahiufankh served as the Third or Fourth Prophet of Amun and was the husband of Nestanebtishru during the reign of pharaoh Shoshenq I, founder of the 22nd Dynasty of Egypt. Consequently, he was one of the most important state officials at Thebes after this king's own son, the High Priest of... |
Egypt | sometime around the 22nd Dynasty of Egypt | ||
Dätgen Man | Germany | 135–385 CE | ||
Elling Woman | Denmark | c. 280 BCE | ||
Franklin's lost expedition Franklin's lost expedition Franklin's lost expedition was a doomed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845. A Royal Navy officer and experienced explorer, Franklin had served on three previous Arctic expeditions, the latter two as commanding officer... mummies |
Canada | 1845 | ||
Fujiwara no Kiyohira Fujiwara no Kiyohira was a samurai of mixed Japanese-Emishi parentage of the late Heian period , who was the founder of the Hiraizumi or Northern Fujiwara dynasty that ruled Northern Japan from about 1100 to 1189.... |
Japan | 1056–1128 | ||
Fujiwara no Motohira (藤原基衡) | Japan | |||
Fujiwara no Hidehira Fujiwara no Hidehira was the third ruler of Northern Fujiwara in Mutsu Province, Japan, the grandson of Fujiwara no Kiyohira. During the Genpei War, he controlled his territory independently of the central government; however, he was the official imperial governor for Mutsu Province as of 1181. He offered shelter to... |
Japan | 1122?–1187 | ||
Fujiwara no Yasuhira Fujiwara no Yasuhira was the fourth ruler of Northern Fujiwara in Mutsu Province, Japan, the second son of Hidehira. Against his father's will, he first hid Yoshitsune in escape but later killed him, fearing the possibility of Yoritomo's intervention... |
Japan | 1155–1189 | ||
Galagh man | Europe | 400-200 BCE | ||
Gebelein predynastic mummies | Egypt | c. 3400 BCE | ||
Georgi Dimitrov Georgi Dimitrov Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician... (buried) |
Bulgaria | 1882-1949 | ||
Grauballe Man Grauballe Man The Grauballe Man is a bog body that was uncovered in 1952 from a peat bog near to the village of Grauballe in Jutland, Denmark. The body itself is that of an adult male dating from the late 3rd century BC, during the early Iron Age, and he had been killed by having his throat slit open... |
Denmark | died in late 3rd century BCE | ||
Gu Congli (顧從禮) couple | China | |||
Guanche mummies Guanche mummies The Guanches, the ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands mummified their dead.This practice was intended to preserve the body of the deceased through embalming techniques similar to those performed in other ancient civilizations. Its purpose, linked to their religious beliefs, was to protect... |
Canary Islands | some where dated as early as the 12th century | ||
Haraldskær Woman Haraldskær Woman The Haraldskær Woman is an Iron Age bog body found naturally preserved in a bog in Jutland, Denmark. Labourers discovered the body in 1835 while excavating peat on the Haraldskær Estate... |
Denmark | 500-401 BCE | ||
Hatshepsut Hatshepsut Hatshepsut also Hatchepsut; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies;1508–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt... |
Egypt | 1508–1458 BCE | ||
Hazel Farris Hazel Farris The purported mummified remains of Hazel Farris traveled the American South and were displayed for a long time at the Bessemer Hall of History in Bessemer, Alabama as Hazel the Mummy... |
USA | ca 1880–December 20, 1906 | ||
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney , better known by his inherited title as 4th Earl of Bothwell, was hereditary Lord High Admiral of Scotland. He is best known for his association with and subsequent marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots, as her third husband... |
England | c. 1534–14 April 1578 | ||
Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh Hồ Chí Minh , born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam... |
Vietnam | 19 May 1890–2 September 1969 | ||
Huang Zhuowu (黃拙吾) | ||||
Iufaa Iufaa Iufaa was an Egyptian priest and administer of palaces who lived around 500 BC. His mummy was discovered in an unmolested tomb by Czech archaeologists including Ladislav Bares in February 1998. The discovery of an unmolested Egyptian tomb of this significance is a very rare occurrence... |
Egypt | c. 500 BCE | ||
Mummy Juanita Mummy Juanita Momia Juanita , also known as the Inca Ice Maiden and Lady of Ampato, is the well-preserved frozen body of an Incan girl who was killed as an offering to the Inca gods sometime between 1450 and 1480, at approximately 11–15 years old... |
Peru | died c. 1450–1480 | ||
The Ice Maiden | Siberia | 5th century BCE | ||
Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov was a Buryat Buddhist lama of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, best known for the lifelike state of his body, which is not subject to macroscopic decay.- Biography :... |
Siberia | 1852–1927 | ||
Jin Hua (金花) | ||||
Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz was a German knight, who is today most famous because of the state of preservation of his body; no noticeable mummification process was used upon his death... |
Prussia | 1651–1702 | ||
Sogen Kato Sogen Kato was thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man until July 2010, when it was found that he had likely died in November 1978, aged 79, and his family had never announced his death in an attempt to preserve his record... |
Japan | 22 July 1899 – c. November 1978 | ||
Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician, longtime leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia , prime minister and president of Czechoslovakia.-Early life:... , buried |
Czechoslovakia | 1896–1953 | ||
Kim Il-Sung Kim Il-sung Kim Il-sung was a Korean communist politician who led the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from its founding in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to his death... |
North Korea | 15 April 1912–8 July 1994 | ||
Vissarion Korkoliacos Vissarion Korkoliacos Vissarion Korkoliacos , also spelled as Visarion or Vissarion Korkoliakos, , was a Greek Orthodox monk of the Agathonos Monastery, close to Lamia, Central Greece... |
Greece | 1908–1991 | ||
Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchi , or Canadian Ice Man, is a naturally mummified body found in Tatshenshini-Alsek Park in British Columbia, Canada, by a group of hunters in 1999. Radiocarbon dating of artifacts found with the body placed the age of the body at between 300 and 550 years old... |
Canada | born c. 1450–1700 | ||
Le Du Tong | Vietnam | 1680-1731 | ||
Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a... |
Russia | 22 April 1870–21 January 1924 | ||
Li | China | |||
Lindow Man Lindow man Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England. The body was found on 1 August 1984 by commercial peat-cutters... |
England | 2 BCE-119 AD | ||
Lindow Woman Lindow Woman Lindow Woman, also known as Lindow I, is the name given to the partial remains of a female bog body, discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss, near Wilmslow, northwest England, on 13 May 1983 by commercial peat-cutters. The remains were a skull fragment, with soft tissue and hair attached.Police... |
England | c. 250 | ||
Ling Huiping (凌惠平) | China | |||
Rosalia Lombardo Rosalia Lombardo Rosalia Lombardo was an Italian child born in 1918 in Palermo, Sicily. She died of pneumonia on December 6, 1920. Rosalia's father, General Lombardo, was sorely grieved upon her death, so he approached Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, to preserve her... |
Sicily | 1918–December 6, 1920 | ||
Manchester Mummy Manchester Mummy Hannah Beswick , of Birchin Bower, Hollinwood, Oldham, England, was a wealthy woman who had a pathological fear of premature burial... |
England | 1688–February 1758 | ||
Mao Zedong Mao Zedong Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution... |
China | 1893–1976 | ||
Elmer McCurdy Elmer McCurdy Elmer McCurdy was an Oklahoma outlaw whose mummified body was discovered in The Pike amusement zone in Long Beach, California in December 1976.-Background:... |
USA | January, 1880–October 7, 1911 | ||
Moimango | New Guinea | |||
José dos Santos Ferreira Moura | Portugal | 1839–1887 | ||
Mummy 1770 Mummy 1770 Mummy No. 1770 was that of a unknown age and gender the but is thought to be an Egyptian girl. She was never know as anyone other than her museum number after her death. When she was unwrapped in 1975 by the Manchester Mummy team, including Dr. Rosalie David, believed they may be able to attempt a... |
Egypt / England | |||
Mummies of Guanajuato Mummies of Guanajuato The Mummies of Guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833. These mummies were discovered in a cemetery located in Guanajuato, which has made the city one of the biggest tourist attractions in Mexico... |
Mexico | died in Cholera outbreak in 1833 | ||
Meenybradden woman | Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth... |
1050-1410 AD | ||
Nesperennub | Egypt | c. 800 BCE | ||
Nefrina Nefrina Nefrina lived in the town of Akhmim, Egypt, in c. 250 BC.Nefrina died c. 275 BC, possibly of complications resulting from a broken hip. She was mummified in the fashion typical of the upper class.-Present day:... |
Egypt | died c. 275 BCE | ||
Nesyamun Nesyamun Nesyamun otherwise known as The Leeds Mummy, and his coffins are amongst the best researched of their kind. Nesyamun was a priest, incense-bearer and scribe at the ancient Egyptian temple complex at Karnak and died over 3,000 years ago, around 1100 BC. His body was then preserved and entombed ready... |
Egypt / England | died c. 1100 BCE | ||
Old Croghan Man Old Croghan Man Old Croghan Man is the name given to a well-preserved Iron Age bog body found in an Irish bog in June 2003. The remains are named after Croghan Hill, north of Daingean, County Offaly, near where the body was found. The find is on display in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.Old Croghan Man... |
Ireland | died 362–175 BCE | ||
Ötzi the Iceman Ötzi the Iceman Ötzi the Iceman , Similaun Man, and Man from Hauslabjoch are modern names for a well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived about 5,300 years ago. The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. The nickname comes from the... |
Italy / Austria | c. 3300 BCE | ||
Osterby Man | Germany | 70-220 BCE | ||
Pedro Mountains Mummy Pedro Mountains Mummy In October 1932, while digging for gold in the San Pedro mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming, two prospectors, Cecil Mayne and Frank Carr, blasted their way through some thick rock that a large vein of gold continued into. When the dust settled, they saw they had opened up a small room, approximately... |
USA | |||
Eva Perón Eva Perón María Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.She was born in the village of Los Toldos in... |
Argentina | 7 May 1919–26 July 1952 | ||
Persian Princess Persian Princess The Persian Princess or Persian Mummy is a mummy of an alleged Persian princess that surfaced in Pakistani Baluchistan in October 2000. After huge publicity and further investigation, the mummy proved to be an archaeological forgery and possibly a murder victim.-Discovery:The mummy was found... |
Pakistan | died 1996 | ||
Luang Pho Daeng | Thailand | died mid-1980s | ||
Qilakitsoq Qilakitsoq Qilakitsoq is an archaeological site on Nuussuaq Peninsula, on the shore of Uummannaq Fjord in northwestern Greenland. Formally a settlement, it is famous for the discovery of eight mummified bodies in 1972.- Archaeological finds :... mummies |
Greenland | c. 1460 | ||
Qiao Jian'an (喬健庵) | China | |||
Ramesses I Ramesses I Menpehtyre Ramesses I was the founding Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt's 19th dynasty. The dates for his short reign are not completely known but the time-line of late 1292-1290 BC is frequently cited as well as 1295-1294 BC... |
Egypt | ruled Egypt 1292–1290 BCE or 1295–1294 BCE | ||
Ramesses II Ramesses II Ramesses II , referred to as Ramesses the Great, was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire... |
Egypt | ruled Egypt 1279–1213 BCE | ||
Rendswühren Fen Man | Germany | 1st or 2nd century | ||
Seti I Seti I Menmaatre Seti I was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt , the son of Ramesses I and Queen Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II... |
Egypt | Ruled Egypt 1294 or 1290–1279 BCE | ||
Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee... (buried) |
Russia | 18 December 1878–5 March 1953 | ||
Spirit Cave mummy Spirit Cave mummy The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, thirteen miles east of Fallon, Nevada by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.... |
USA | died about 9400 ago | ||
St. Michan's Church St. Michan's Church St. Michan's Church, located in Church Street, Dublin, Ireland, is a Church of Ireland church.-Building:Built on the site of an early Danish chapel , the current structure dates largely from a reconstruction in 1686, but is still the only parish church on the north side of the Liffey surviving... mummies |
Ireland | diverse lifetimes; e.g. a 400 year old mummy of a nun | ||
Stidsholt Woman | Denmark | Never Dated | ||
Tarim mummies Tarim mummies The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1900 BC to 200 AD. Some of the mummies are frequently associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages in the Tarim Basin, although the evidence is not... |
China | 2000–300 BCE | ||
Tetsumonkai | Japan | 1768–1829 | ||
Thutmose II Thutmose II Thutmose II was the fourth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He built some minor monuments and initiated at least two minor campaigns but did little else during his rule and was probably strongly influenced by his wife, Hatshepsut... |
Egypt | ruled Egypt 1493 or 1492–1479. | ||
Tutankhamun Tutankhamun Tutankhamun , Egyptian , ; approx. 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty , during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom... |
Egypt | c. 1341–1323 BCE | ||
Tjuyu Tjuyu Tjuyu was an Egyptian noble goddess, and the mother of queen Tiye, wife of pharaoh Amenhotep III... |
Egypt | eighteenth dynasty | ||
Tollund Man Tollund Man The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the time period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950 buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, which preserved his body. Such a find is... |
Denmark | 4th century BCE | ||
John Torrington John Torrington Petty Officer John Shaw Torrington was an explorer and Royal Navy stoker. He was part of an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, but along with the rest of the crew, including the leader, Sir John Franklin, mysteriously died early in the trip. His preserved body was exhumed in 1984, to try to... |
England / Canada | 1825—1 January 1846 | ||
Uan Muhuggiag Uan Muhuggiag Uan Muhuggiag is a place in central Libyan Sahara, and the name of the mummy of a small boy found there in 1958 by Professor Fabrizio Mori. The mummy displays a highly sophisticated mummification technique, and at around 5,500 years old is older than any comparable Ancient Egyptian mummy.The... |
Africa / Central Sahara | c. 3500 BCE | ||
Unlucky Mummy Unlucky Mummy The Unlucky Mummy is an Ancient Egyptian artefact in the collection of the British Museum in London. The identity of the original owner is unknown... |
Egypt / England | created c. 950 BCE | ||
Windeby I Windeby I Windeby I is the name given to the bog body found preserved in a peat bog near Windeby, Northern Germany, in 1952. Until recently, the body was also called the Windeby Girl, because an archeologist believed it to be the body of a 14-year old female due to its slight build. Prof... |
Germany | 41 AD - 118 AD | ||
Weerdinge Men Weerdinge Men The Weerdinge men . were two naked bog bodies found in Drenthe, the Netherlands, in the southern part of Bourtanger Moor in 1904. Radiocarbon dating shows that the two likely died between ca.160 BC to ca.220 AD. At first, it was believed that one of the two bodies was female, which led to the... |
Europe | 160 BCE - 220 AD | ||
Xin Zhui | China | born in 100 BCE, died in her fifties | ||
Xu Fan (徐藩) couple | China | |||
Yuya Yuya Yuya was a powerful Egyptian courtier during the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt... |
Egypt | eighteenth dynasty | ||
Yde Girl Yde Girl Yde Girl is a bog body found in the Stijfveen peat bog near the village of Yde, Netherlands. She was found on 12 May 1897 and was reputedly uncannily well-preserved when discovered , but by the time the body was turned over to the authorities a fortnight later it had been severely damaged and... |
Netherlands | died 54 BCE–128 CE | ||
Yang Fuxun (楊福信) | ||||
Yoon clan woman with fetus | South Korea | 16th century, Joseon Dynasty Joseon Dynasty Joseon , was a Korean state founded by Taejo Yi Seong-gye that lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo at what is today the city of Kaesong. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day Seoul... |
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Zagreb mummy | Egypt / Croatia | the bindings of the mummy were created 250–100 BCE as a book, around 100 CE there was a shortage of bindings and other materials like the book were used | ||
Zhou Yu (周瑀) | China | |||
See also
- List of DNA tested mummies
- Bog bodies
- Buddhist mummiesBuddhist mummiesBuddhist mummies, also called flesh body bodhisattvas, full body sariras, or living buddhas refer to the bodies of Buddhist monks and nuns that remain incorrupt, without any traces of deliberate mummification. These are venerated by some Buddhists who believe they successfully were able to...
- IncorruptibilityIncorruptibilityIncorruptibility is a Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox belief that supernatural intervention allows some human bodies to avoid the normal process of decomposition after death as a sign of their holiness...
- List of bog bodies
- MummyMummyA mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness , very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry...