But mummies do provide scientists and archaeologists with tools and information to better understand the cultures of times past. Mummies exist in a variety of forms and come from different parts around the world, not just down the banks of the Nile. Feel free to cruise through different regions and time periods on the new mummies website on exn.ca to get a grip on mummies from times past and remote places. Take advantage of our large range of features and stories on ice mummies, embalmed mummies, books on mummies , mummies in pop culture and film and links to some good mummy resources . Some archeologists feel that the Americas were inhabited from Pacific ancestors, and not, as history has us believe, by Columbus and the Europeans.
Egyptian mummies can offer some clues tht support the pacific hypothesis.
How to make a mummy Watch Jay Ingram as he finds out how the Egyptians used to go about their process of mummification. He talks to Roberta Shaw of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. In order to undertand how cells and body tissue may be directly affected by the process of mummification, they needed to try it out for themselves. Many mummies are crossing borders as anxious museums and collectors expand their inventory. Some mummies from Niagara Falls are moving south of the Border, and one of them may be an old Egyptian royal.