Mindy Kaling

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

American Actress

Miriam Margolyes

Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn't love my father; he was such a quiet man, and she was not. She was the most vivid person I have ever known. She was accomplished and brave and fearless. She used to say to me, 'I want you to be able to talk to anyone about anything.

English Actress

Govinda

From a very young age, my dad did not have work, so mummy would look after the house. She would go and sing bhajans and do thumri performances to support the house.

Indian Actor

R. L. Stine

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

American Writer

Zahi Hawass

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

Egyptian Scientist

Princess Eugenie of York

Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.

British Royalty

Shefali Shah

After 'Waqt,' I was terrified I'd be offered all the mummy roles.

Tanya Saracho

You can't visit Guanajuato without going to the mummy museum.

Mexican Playwright

Svante Paabo

I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.

Swedish Scientist

Motsi Mabuse

South African Dancer

Used in historical context, especially relating to ancient civilizations like Egypt.

Historical Relic

Commonly featured in horror genres, depicting them as reanimated beings.

Horror Element

Often associated with archaeology and discoveries from ancient tombs.

Archaeological Find

Shows closeness and affection when children refer to their mother.

Affectionate Term

Used majorly in the UK and Commonwealth countries, not commonly in the US.

Specific Regions

Can evoke emotional responses, signifying need or comfort.

Emotional Context

Refers to a method of preserving bodies rarely used in modern times.

Ancient Practice

Highlights a technique aiming to delay decomposition of the body.

Preservation Technique

 coronary heart diseases and this is a disease what we all always believed is a modern day disease I think we can learn a lot if you study these mummies and understand how as what role blazing the genes and what role plays the nutrition this could help to find new ways to to

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 that now populate the river are held in high esteem as they probe for snails they resemble scribes dipping pens into ink so are also credited with the power of knowledge but in reality they are important for a more practical reason evidence from autopsies on mummies has

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 not only that the essential protective items normally placed inside the coffin were missing and most surprising of all the sheep or goat skin found around the mummy of the screaming man may have been considered ritually impure by the ancient Egyptians some experts have

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 Tattooed mummies from around the world attest to the universality of body modification across the millennia, and to the fact that you really were stuck with it forever if your civilization never got around to inventing laser removal.

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 come in off the scale these are so rare so rare and so brimming with scientific promise that even a single dinosaur mummy has the potential to change our understanding of all dinosaurs from their skeletons scientists know how big

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 in mummies buried thousands of years ago. So what began as Roentgen's happy accident has become a medical marvel. Hospitals and clinics now conduct over 100 millions scans each year worldwide to treat diseases and save lives.

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 We found samples in mummies. Today, about a third of the world's population is infected, and most of them never even know it. In healthy people, symptoms often don't show up at all. When they do, they're mild and flu-like.

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 a conversation. And isn't that what this is all about -- finding a way, at the end of the day, to not feel alone in this world, and a way to feel like we've changed it before we leave? Stone to hammer, man to mummy,

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 be preserved or mummified for the dead to be granted eternal life. I feel like I personally get attached when I'm working on a mummy, and you feel like you're getting to know them, and you feel like a caretaker.

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 and prepare it for safe arrival in the afterlife. But Seti's mummy is unusual. His face is incredibly well-preserved. He looks almost perfect, not what you