Mummies and Archaeology

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

Mummies of Bronze Age Scotland: Are mummies more common than we think?
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.

Chinchorro Culture
The Chinchorro culture were archaic hunter-fisher-gathers who lived on the arid desert coasts of Chile and Peru, and were very very good at mummification.

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

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

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

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

The Mummy Congress
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.

Unraveling the Mysteries of King Tutenkhamun
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.