Why are mummies important to us today?

But outside of Halloween horror, mummies are important cultural artifacts, and studying them gives us invaluable information about ancient cultures from their diets to their diseases.

Why is everything buried in Egypt?

Ancient Egyptians believed the burial process to be an important part in sending humans to a comfortable afterlife. The Egyptians believed that, after death, the deceased could still have such feelings of anger, or hold a grudge as the living. The deceased were also expected to support and help their living family.

What can we learn from mummies?

A mummy preserves information about lifestyle, diet, diseases, cause of death, and religious and funerary beliefs, giving us an insight into aspects of the civilisation that archaeology and ancient literature alone cannot provide.

Why are we digging up mummies?

“If you imagine bones that have been laying for centuries undisturbed in soil, they reach a kind of equilibrium with the soil around them, so the deterioration tails off, as it were,” he says. “If you dig them up, and then rebury them in another place, you get this fresh round of deterioration.”

Why do we excavate mummies?

By excavation, Archaeologists helps save graves that would otherwise be destroyed in the course of construction of new infrastructure: Why not just let the grave be as it is. No need to build anything over it.

What is the story behind mummies?

We know that mummification (to preserve a body for the afterlife) was developed by ancient Egyptians who believed that soul lives on after a person has died. They believed that a mummified body of a person was a place or house for the spirit of the person to return to the body after death.

Why are pyramids and mummies important?

Why did the Ancient Egyptians build pyramids? The Egyptians believed that if the pharaoh’s body could be mummified after death the pharaoh would live forever. The tombs were designed to protect the buried Pharaoh’s body and his belongings.