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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mummies of the World presents over 50 human and animal mummies from Europe, Africa, Asia, South Pacific, South America and ancient Egypt. The different mummies immediatedly show that skin and bits of hair and soft tissue including muscle are still preserved. The collection is one which ranges from hundreds to thousands of years in age. Moreover, the collection consists of the mummified remains of a child from 6,400 years ago; a dog found in a peat bog; a German baron from the 17th century and some mummified Egyptian king. In addition to this, there are cat cemeteries which have been unearthed by archaeologists, with mummified black cats commonplace . In fact, historians and philosophers have stated that it was very essential to ancient Egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved. This very preservation has come to be known as mummification. Basically, mummification has its roots in ancient Egypt and is known to be a very complicated process. Indeed, historians have voiced out that mummification usually takes up to 70 days for completion...
