mummy

1. an embalmed or preserved body, esp as prepared for burial in ancient Egypt

2. Obsolete the substance of such a body used medicinally

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What does it mean when you dream about a mummy?

A mummy is a preserved dead person, so a dream about a mummy can be referring to something that has died but which we continue to preserve. A mummy is also concealed beneath layers of cloth, so a mummy can represent something we are hiding from ourselves.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Mummy

a corpse protected from decomposition by artificial means. Preservation of the body after death was connected among many peoples with their concepts of life after death and the immortality of the soul. The mummification of people and sacred animals was widely practiced in ancient Egypt. The oldest known mummy is the Egyptian Queen Hetepheres (third milennium B.C.). The preservation of the bodies of the dead by fumigation was known to the ancient peoples of Peru, Mexico, and the Canary Islands. Mummies were discovered in the USSR during the excavations of the Pazyryk kurgans in the Altai, dating from the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. The burial sites of mummies usually contain numerous articles that provide valuable material on the way of life, culture, art, and religion of ancient societies.

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The mummy was discovered in a royal cache at Deir El-Bahri in 1881, and has been displayed at the 'Royal Mummies Hall' since 2006.

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