{"id":79723,"date":"2016-10-31T11:59:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T17:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=79723"},"modified":"2020-04-14T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T19:38:29","slug":"photos-of-real-mummies-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=79723","title":{"rendered":"Real mummies from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry… I know it’s late, the trick or treating is done and everyone has abandoned the Halloween craziness and moved on to drinking from the Christmas firehose. <\/p>\n

These come from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and this part of the museum is suitably creepy. I kept feeling like an angry person was looking over my shoulder every time I read an inscription\/story about each of the people in the section.<\/p>\n

I guess I’d be really pissed too if someone removed me from my comfy tomb or grave and placed me in a museum in a country that I wasn’t familiar with.<\/p>\n

The most fascinating of the group is the portrait mummies. These are examples of how the general population of Egypt would have treated their dead. <\/p>\n

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Mummification of the body was only minimal and in most cases, the body was placed in a simple grave with several other people. Rather than keep opening a grave to add people, a family might keep the mummies stored in their house until enough people had died to have a burial.<\/p>\n

Not all of the mummies are from Egypt. The husband and wife sarcophagus comes from Italy and the stone protective deities come from Iraq.<\/p>\n