10 mummy World's Most Historic

10 mummy World's Most Historic

A mummy is a corpse whose body has been preserved by either intentional or due to chemicals and also because of the temperature, air and a very low humidity. Human and animal mummies are found all over the world, a result of the embalmers or because of natural preservation through unusual circumstances. Many mummies thousands of years due to the death yangterkenal interesting or unusual preservation of his body.Here are 10 mummies of the most interesting and most still can be seen up to now.

10. Elmer McCurdy
Elmer McCurdy (January 1880 - October 7, 1911) is a criminal who was killed in the shootout in Oklahoma. When no one claimed his body, the corpse was embalmed and even then with the reason that one day there would be a corpse who take it.
And 5 years later, someone who claimed to Elmer's brother who wants to give decent burial to the sodaranya, when his brother wanted to take it, they do not menggangap it adl Elmer corpse, they just menggangap it's just a wax figure, and they also sell the body to place the local carnival to be practice target shooting, and when the bodies which are considered the statue's arm shot section, proved the truth of jenah Elmer McCurdy.


9. Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (10 April 1870 - 21 January 1924) is one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century, who masterminded the Bolshevik takeover in Russia in 1917, and is the architect and the first Soviet leader.
In March 1923, he suffered a stroke for the third time that made him a distinguished stupid and always in bed until he died on January 21, 1924, at the age of 53 years, on plantations in Leninskiye Gorki. His body was embalmed and exhibited at the Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow and still be viewed until now


8. Ancient Pompeiians
Was the corpse which was buried by hot ash from the eruption of Vesuvius mummy now they will be seen in the Archaeological Museum of Naples. 


7. Juanita The Ice Maiden
Juanita ("The Ice Maiden") was found at the top of Mount Ampato, Peru, on September 8, 1995. He was one who was sacrificed to the gods of the Incas at 500 years ago. Juanita is now on display at the Museo de Altura Santuarios in Arequipa, Peru.


6. Ötzi the Iceman
Ö tzi natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC (53 centuries ago). The mummy was discovered in September 1991 in Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch, on the border between Austria and Italy. His body can now be seen at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, northern Italy



5. Ginger
Why is called Ginger, krn yg mummy mummy is believed to be the first of Egyptian mummies. And even after 5000 years ago die mummy is perfect, hair, legs and even her nails still look perfect. Ginger was found at Gebelein, Egypt and currently on display at the British Museum.


4. Tollund Man
Is a human corpse man who lived in the 4th century BC the Roman era. He was found in May 1950 on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. Now his body is shown in the Silkeborg Museum in Denmark.


3. Rosalia Lombardo
The body of Rosalia Lombardo, a daughter of two-year-old Sicilian who died in 1920, still looks fresh. Mummy known as "Sleeping Beauty" is stored in a glass box in the Capuchin monastery Palermo, Italy.


2. King Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun (around 1341 BC - 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom.Tutankhamun was 9 years old when he became pharaoh and ruled for about 10 years, until his death. Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings (where he still resides) was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 almost completely intact mummy of Tutankhamun's most complete and among the ancient Egyptian king ever discovered.


1. Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)
there are 1971 workers in China digging air raid shelter near the city of Changsha, they found makam2 Han Dynasty era that contains more than 1,000 artifacts which nicely manicured, and the "corpse of the most perfectly preserved ever found" a known fact is the Tomb of Xin Zhui, the wife of the Marquis Han who died between 178-145 BC.
The 'mystery of Lady Dai' unresolved. The scientists believe the body was incredible sustainable due by 22 dresses of silk and hemp and 9 distinguished silk ribbon wrapped his corpse and keep air out. However, some scientists suspect that the real key to conservation lies in the mysterious unidentified red liquid found inside the coffin tsb. And this body now can we see in the Hunan Provincial Museum.


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