Masheter Movie Archive/Alamy
Some spiritualists in the 1920s moaned that Tutankhamun appeared almost too often.
The Turin mummy was deliberately preserved, not just desiccated by dry, hot sands.
R. Bianucci
A body in an Italian museum reveals that Egyptians living 1,500 or more years before the Pharaohs already knew how to preserve bodies.
The Mummy, in its 2017 rendition, rehashes an 80-year-old franchise focused on revived Egyptian corpses.
AlloCine
Mummies are scary but they also fascinate us, giving us the feeling that we can vanquish time by preserving our most perishable feature: flesh.