In general, the mummifying of animals was not given the careful attention afforded to humans.

Even after the Chinchorro died out, the Andean Inca continued mummifying, tending and consulting their dead, preserved in special houses or caves until finally, in the 1600's, Spanish priests hunted out and burned or buried the mummies.

It takes about 70 days to completely mummify a dead body.

They also had an extensive knowledge of anatomy, which enabled them to mummify their dead.

The afterlife was also very important to Egyptians and they are known for mummifying their dead.

Would they have time to rot, mummify, their substance evaporate?

One of the kids started winding his scarf around his head, mummifying himself.

And then you'll just keep hanging here, mummifying.

Q. Discuss those who tried while alive to mummify themselves in Japan.

He could detect no unpleasant odors or pools of blood, and their skin had started to mummify.

Though some studies have been done, there is no definitive answer as to what is causing the remains to mummify.

Sometimes, she steals away objects - little things that may include wallets - to mummify and incorporate in her work.

For the first time she saw the plaster cast, molded closely to her body, mummifying her.

Heather is coerced into completing the ritual, and the vines begin to mummify all of the girls in the school.

The player and Ann must help the head priest to mummify Thutmose's body.

"Museums have the effect of mummifying people.

"This world is like an unburied corpse, mummifying alone and forgotten in an uncaring desert."

"You would prefer to let them mummify in the sands, to let their water go wasted into the air?

To mummify a corpse, tar was used.

It teases the hair of a corpse that has lain undisturbed for a generation, mummifying.

There are many questions you might expect on the Today programme, but not: "Why did you want to mummify someone?"

Why did the Egyptians mummify dead bodies?

A new supposition: since with the help of our positive 2000 magnetic plates we can mummify small animals, could the pyramid have the same property?

When they finished mummifying those, they coated the whole body with natron.

Egyptians also believed that the ka had to have a body to return to, and because of this belief they would mummify their dead.

Whiteread has said of this sculpture that she was trying to mummify the air in the room, hence the title.