Discover the mystery of the famous mummy

The mummies are one of the precious remains that contain many mysteries. It is even believed that a mummy has adapted a deadly curse when someone opens the tomb with a disaster.

1. The oldest natural Ginger mummy

This is considered one of the six most famous natural mummies unearthed at the end of the 19th century from a tomb in the Egyptian desert. Ginger mummy was then displayed at the British Museum in 1901 and became the first mummy to be displayed to the public.

Mummy Ginger

Ginger and other mummies are also the oldest mummies known to date about 3,400 BC. At that time, the technique of artificial embalming was not popular. The mummies mostly have organs preserved by warm and dry air of desert sand where they are buried.

2. Famous Hatshepsut queen mummy

Hatshepsut is considered to be the most famous queen in Egypt who has ruled the kingdom for two decades and made ambitious construction projects to establish a new valuable trade.

Queen Hatshepsut mummy

She died in 1458 BC and was buried in the valley of the Kings (Valley of the Kings) in Egypt. In 1902, a group of archaeologists discovered her mummy, but it was not until 2006 that a new team identified it as Queen Hatshepsut's body by examining a molar tooth contained in Wooden box named Hatshepsut.

3. King Tutankhamen's mummy with a curse of death

King Tutankhamen (king Tut) became king (pharaoh) from the age of 9 and ruled for about 10 years (from 1333-1324 BC). However little is known about this king before King Tut's tomb was unearthed in the valley in Egypt in 1922.

King Tut's mummy

The mummy grave especially impressed the public by countless ancient treasures including jewels, dazzling shrines and gold masks. To discover the king mummy Tut a partner in the excavation team was killed after a few months of opening the tomb. That death rises again and again to the myth of the mummy's curse when anyone invades King Tut's tomb will be brought down to rage. However, it is also reported that the victim died of a mosquito bite.

4. The most powerful Pharaoh mummy of Egypt

It is the king of Ramesses II mummy who is evaluated by historians as the most powerful king in Egypt, ruling this kingdom for 60 years (1279-1213 BC), life to over 90 years old and up to 100 quarters death. According to the custom of Ramesses II, when he died, he was buried in the valley of the Kings, but to avoid being invaded by the bandits, the ancient Egyptian priests transferred the king's mummy to another place. .

Pharaoh Ramesses II mummy

In 1881, Ramesses II mummy was discovered in the royal secret place at Deir el-Bahri, along with more than 50 mummies of the leader and other nobles. In 1974, archaeologists brought this mummy to Paris to kill fungal infections. The strange thing is that before leaving Egypt, Ramesses II also received an Egyptian passport, which listed the Pharaoh career (passed away).

5. Valley of gold mummies

These mummies are located in the Bahariya Oasis region, west of the Egyptian desert. It used to be a prosperous agricultural production center in ancient times and has a Greek temple dedicated to Alexander the Great. In 1996, an ancient security guard riding a donkey through the land of the temple suddenly tripped into a hole and revealed the edges of a desert tomb.

Gold mummy valley

Then a group of archaeologists came to the excavation site and called this the Gold Mummy Valley . There are not only hundreds of mummies buried with many mummies wrapped in gold but also a treasure of artifacts.