26Accidentally Shipped Mummy
In 1971, a 2000-year-old Egyptian mummy was accidentally shipped to Florida and needed a doctor to examine the mummy and issue a death certificate to avoid a federal fine.
27. Ancient Nubian mummies have been found to have the modern antibiotic Tetracycline in their bones which they got from beer.
28. When 2 ancient Egyptian mummies were placed in a storeroom by a New Orleans University and forgotten over time, they ended up "attending" 3 Super Bowls in the 1970s, as the storeroom was located under the university's football stadium.
29. The Detmold child is a 6,500-year-old mummy found in Peru. The child was born about 3,000 years before Tutankhamen and died between 8-9 months from rare congenital heart disease and pulmonary infection. It's one of the oldest preserved mummies in the world.
30. Between the 16th and 19th centuries artists sometimes used a pigment named "Mummy Brown," which was made from a mixture of pitch, myrrh, and ground-up remains of Egyptian mummies. It stopped being produced when the supply of mummies ran out.
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31Inca Maiden Mummy
‘The Inca Maiden’ is a mummy which despite being 500 years old looks eerily lifelike. It was discovered near the summit of the Llullaillaco volcano located on the Argentina-Peru border. It is one of the 3 mummies of children who were sacrificed as part of a religious ritual.
32. In 1979, a mummified steppe bison named was discovered in Alaska. The 36,000 year old specimen was nicknamed ‘Blue Babe.’ While preparing the specimen for display, the research team decided to stew and eat part of the mummy's neck to "celebrate the accomplishment."
33. The Mummies of Guanajuato are several naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833. The mummies were discovered in a cemetery in Guanajuato, making the city one of the biggest tourist attractions in Mexico.
34. During Roman times, Egyptian mummies were sometimes accompanied by a realist portrait of the dead painted on wooden boards. About 900 of these portraits are known to exist.
35. Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000 of them, pulverized them, and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer. Also, so many baboons and ibises were mummified for the trade that it likely drove them to extinction in Egypt.
