21-25 Mummy Facts
21. Mummies in ancient Egypt were buried together with a Book of the Dead. The book consisted of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person’s journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife. – Source
22. Mummies were mashed up and routinely ingested in the 16th to 17th centuries as remedies to cure ailments from headaches to ulcers. – Source
23. The reason mummified child Rosalia Lombardo appears to “blink” in tourist videos and pictures is because of how the sunlight hits her face throughout the day. Her eyes are mostly but not entirely closed, so depending on the position of the sun, her eyes might appear closed or open. – Source
24. In Guanajuato, Mexico you had to pay a tax to keep your dead relatives from being exhumed and put on display as mummies. – Source
25. The longest surviving book written in the still untranslated Etruscan language was found in the wrappings of an Egyptian mummy. – Source
26-29 Mummy Facts
26. There is a monastery in Sicily with over 800 mummies on display. – Source
27. Linen is made from flaxseed. It is one of the first to be domesticated by man and it was used to wrap Egyptian mummies. – Source
28. Naperville Central High School in Naperville, Illinois has an actual Egyptian mummy on display. – Source
29. 19th-century aristocrats hosted “disintegration parties” in which guests watched unwrapped mummies rapidly decompose. – Source
