The Mummy Exhibit During Spring Break

During my spring break I stayed in New York. Another activity I did was going  to the mummy exhibit Natural History museum. The mummy exhibit was interesting because I have never learned about mummies before. I also learned that mummification was practiced in ancient Peru. Surprisingly, the mummies from two different continents looked the same (Egypt and Peru). They seemed like they were wrapped the same way. They were so many different mummies in the exhibit! Every single display case had at least one mummy. I also learned that scientists are just understanding the extent that mummies can teach us. They can show how the person died and the gender of the mummy. There were many instances where the mother was mummified with the baby in a bundle. I thought that mummification was only for the rich such as the kings and queens of Egypt. Mummification did take a long time. A lot of it was not from the process of taking out organs but to prepare the materials for the mummy. This includes what the mummy was wrapped in. For a king or queen you had to build a tomb sometimes under the sand. I am sure that would take a long time considering the technology for building at the time. Though, I don’t know what that technology was such as if they had pulley systems and what materials they had to make tools out of. This was all new information to me and thus why it was interesting.