Mummies—named after the bitumen tar, mum, used to coat the linen winding strips around them ... It was not uncommon in the 1800s to pick up a box of "mummy pills" made of ground, compressed ...

Raffaella Bianucci, University of Turin Jones and her team used a variety of tests to examine the linen fragments from the Turin mummy’s torso and wrist as well as a woven basket that was buried ...

Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...

The last step was to coat the mummy in warm resin and wrap it from head to foot in layer after layer of linen strips. About 150 yards—the length of one and a half football fields—were used.