Throughout the middle ages, “mummy,” made by pounding mummified bodies, was a standard product of apothecary shops Mummy comes from the latin word mumia borrowed from the arabic mumiya In course of time it was forgotten that the virtue of mummy lay in the bitumen, and spurious mummy was made from the bodies of felons and suicides.
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The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient egyptians used is called mummification Using special processes, the egyptians removed all moisture from the body, leaving only a dried form that would not easily decay A mummy is a person or animal whose body has been dried or otherwise preserved after death. The meaning of mummy is a body embalmed or treated for burial with preservatives in the manner of the ancient egyptians.
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