mummy is a mummy because the egyptians called them like that because they took all there organs except the heart because they though the mummy spirit was in there or something similar. The English...
because they put this stuff called mummia that they put on the wrapping to "glue" it all together. the word mummification comes from the word mummia, and thats why there called mummies.
'Mummy' comes from 'mummia', which is derived from the Arabic word for the asphalt used by the Egyptians to preserve ('mummify') the corpse. It was, until about a hundred years ago, prized for its...
Mummy came from the Old English word 'mummie (a medical material from embalmed corpses), that word was borrowed from Old French word 'mumie' which came from the Medieval Latin word 'mumia', which was...