Everyone knows what a mummy is. We’ve all seen them in museums or seen photographs of them in newspapers and magazines. A mummy is a dead body, preserved to last through eternity. The most famous mummies come from Egypt; they are the bodies of the Pharaohs, the ancient kings of Egypt. The tombs of the Pharaohs were long the prey of grave robbers. In their greed for the treasures buried with the Pharaohs, thieves unwrapped each layer of cloth that had been wound around the bodies and took each jewel that had been placed inside. Although this unwrapping deprived […]
