Who was the first mummy?
Who was the first mummy? Before this discovery, the oldest known deliberate mummy was a child, one of the Chinchorro mummies found in the Camarones Valley, Chile, which dates around 5050 BC. The oldest known naturally mummified human corpse is a severed head dated as 6,000 years old, found in 1936 AD at the site named Inca Cueva No.
Is it illegal to be mummified?
Seriously: at least in America, it is legal to mummify a corpse. There are organizations there that do this kind of thing. I am not sure about other countries, but I believe most of them don't have any laws on mummification at all.
What is the oldest naturally preserved body?
Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. Ötzi's remains were discovered on 19 September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps (hence the nickname Ötzi, German: [œtsi]) at the border between Austria and Italy.
What race were ancient Egyptians?
Robert Morkot wrote in 2005 that The ancient Egyptians were not 'white' in any European sense, nor were they 'Caucasian'... we can say that the earliest population of ancient Egypt included African people from the upper Nile, African people from the regions of the Sahara and modern Libya, and smaller numbers of people ...