2. WHAT IS A MUMMY A MUMMY IS A DEAD BODY THAT HAS NOT ROTTED AWAY . NATURAL MUMMIES ARE ACCIDENTS OF NATURE,MADE BY FREEZING,DRYING OR WATER LOGGING. ARTIFICIAL MUMMIES ARE MADE ON PURPOSE,BY PEOPLE WHO Have USED DIFFERENT WAYS TO PRESERVE bodies. The best known artificial mummies were made in ancient egypt.. Long ago, travellers frompersia (modern-day iran)thought that a sticky black subtance, called biumen, was used to make egyptian mummies. The persian word from this comes the english word ‘mummy’ .
3. Animal were mummified in ancient egypt, too! Bird and fish were mummified as food for a dead person in the next life. Animal mummies
