Mummies and Archaeology

The Iceman was found in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, a Bronze Age hunter lost in a storm between 3350-3300 BC

Evidence of mummification, the rarified form of ancestor worship, has been found in a Bronze Age site in Scotland. In the September 2005 issue of the journal Antiquity, researchers describe how using techniques established by forensic anthropology to study the breakdown and fossilization of bone have found evidence of mummification far from the previously known cultures which practiced it in Egypt and South America.

The archaeological site of Chinchorro is a cemetery site located on a beach in Arica, in southern Chile.

Queen Hatshepsut's New Kingdom tomb, used by later dynasties as a cache for royal mummies.

From a recent program on NOVA, an illustrated narrative by Liesl Clark on her visit to Sara Sara with Johan Reinhardt.

Joseph Whemple is the name of the fictional archaeologist in the 1932 movie The Mummy.

Mummies and Mortuary Monuments, by William Isbell, investigates the origins of the Inca social and political system called the ayllu.

An article in Salon magazine on the work of Bob Brier, who has experimentally reproduced an Egyptian mummy.

Journalist Heather Pringle includes several chapters on archaeological investigation of death and preservation of the dead, using the various kinds of mummies found the world over to explain and define her commentary.

Aren't the best stories the oldest ones? The latest round of Mummy films echo a very very old legend.

From the American National Geographic, a detailed forensic look at the mummy of King Tutenkhamun, including reconstruction of the coffins and shrines, examination of the human remains, and facial reconstructions.