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a body that refused to rot and got famous for it.
means A mummy is a corpse preserved against decay, whether deliberately embalmed (as in ancient Egypt) or naturally dried out by cold, peat, or desert air; it's also a child's word for mother.
from The two senses are unrelated. The preserved-body 'mummy' comes through Medieval Latin 'mumia' from Arabic 'mumiya,' meaning bitumen or embalming wax — itself from Persian 'mum,' wax. Medieval Europeans believed ground-up Egyptian mummies were medicinal, so 'mumia' first named the tarry substance, then the bodies it coated. The 'mother' sense is a separate, much later nursery word — a soft reduplicated coinage like 'mama' and 'dada' — and only sounds like the first by coincidence.
- brain exit
- Egyptians yanked it out through the nose
- medicine cabinet
- Europeans ground mummies into healing powder for centuries
- paint pigment
- Mummy brown was a real artist's color
- natural recipe
- Bogs, deserts, and ice make mummies for free
- heart stays
- Egyptians kept it for judgment in the afterlife
tutankhamun — egyptian pharaoh whose tomb was discovered in valley of the kings in 1922 with his mummified body intact
ramesses ii — egyptian pharaoh mummified around 1213 bce, discovered in deir el-bahari cache in 1881
cleopatra vii — last active pharaoh of egypt, mummified around 30 bce in alexandria