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Mummies

Patented: History of Inventions

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What Is It About Mummification That Intrigues Us?

Mummies are an artificially preserved body of a human being or an animal. The ancient egyptians believed that you could transform the dead and preserve the body, because then it would be used again for eternity. We do seem to have this obsession with surviving our own death. And so when you're a child, both things ta grub you. It's definitely cooln that you should write a book all cool and freaky about mummy's er.

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