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The Book of the Dead was an ancient Egyptian collection of religious texts for guiding the departed soul safely through the dangers of the Amenti, the lower world. A copy of the work was placed with the mummy in his tomb.
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A mummy is any dead body, human or animal, that has been naturally or artificially preserved. Natural mummification can occur through freezing, drying, or preservation in bogs or oil seeps. Artificial mummification may be achieved by embalming (for example, the mummies of ancient Egypt) or by freeze-drying.
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The Ibis (Ibididae) is a family of birds related to the storks, and mostly found in warm countries. The bill is long, slender, and nearly cylindrical, tapers towards the tip, and is more or less arched. The head is always more or less bare of feathers, the tail is short, and there are generally tufts of plume-like feathers near the posterior end of the body.
The most famous member of the family is the sacred ibis (Ibis aethiopica or Ibis religiosa) of the ancient Egyptians, often found as a mummy in temples. This is found throughout Africa. It is about the size of a common fowl, with its head and neck bare, and white plumage, the primaries of the wings being tipped with black and the secondaries being bright black, glossed with green and violet. It was reared in the temples of ancient Egypt with a degree of respect bordering on adoration, and after death was preserved in a mummified condition. The cause of its being deemed sacred was no doubt because it appeared in Egypt with the rise of the Nile; but it is now rare in that country, living farther south.
There are several other species, as the Ibis falcinellus, or glossy ibis, nearly 60 cm in length, which nests in Asia, but migrates also to Egypt, sometimes visiting England; the Ibis rubra of tropical America, remarkable for its scarlet plumage; the Ibis alba, or white ibis of Florida; the Ibis or Geronticus spinicollis, or straw-necked ibis of Australia; etc.aqws
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Ushabti were funerary statuettes in the form of a mummy, interred with the dead in ancient Egypt. The word is usually said to denote an 'answerer' who responds on behalf of the deceased to the call for service in the realm of Osiris. At first made of stone or wood, by the end of the 18th dynasty they were almost always of glazed falence. The many-coloured type was afterwards replaced exclusively by plain blue, with the name of the deceased, and usually also the 6th chapter of the Book of the Dead, inscribed in black. In the tomb of Seti I there were found 700 ushabtis, and in the Saite age 400 were regularly enclosed in partitioned boxes in each tomb.
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The Mummy Virus is an encrypted computer virus which infects .EXE files. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation, corrupts program or overlay files.
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Talos The Mummy is a horror starring Christopher Lee, Louise Lombard, Sean Pertwee and Lysette Anthony in a story about a group of archaeologists accidentally releasing the spirit of an evil Egyptian prince. Talos The Mummy was directed by Russell Mulcahy in 1998.
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The Mummy is a horror starring Boris Karloff in a story about archaeologists who discover an Egyptian sarcophagus which is accompanied by a dire warning to anyone who disturbs the body. The Mummy was directed by Karl Freund in 1932.
The Mummy is a horror starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah and Kevin J O'Connor in a story about about archaeologists who discover an Egyptian sarcophagus which is accompanied by a dire warning to anyone who disturbs the body. The Mummy was directed by Stephen Sommers in 1999.
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