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World of mummies

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■ Greenland The Inuit preserved fi > and prepared their dead for life    ^

in the “Land of the Dead”

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■ China In the 200s bce, a Chinese    n j

princess was buried in a jadę suit (right) in the mistaken belief that the gemstone would mummify her.

■ Crete Every year, the mummy of a

Christian saint is carried through the \ . | streets of a Cretian town in a procession. . i til

■ Andes The dead were preserved in ancient cultures across Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, and Chile. The Incas believed their l ' j dead king was a god and worshipped his mummy to keep him alive.

■ Sicily Around 400 years ago,

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mummification became fashionable.

Morę than 6,000 mummies can be seen today in catacombs in Palermo.

■ Central Asia Scythian nomads, who roamed central Asia from 600s to the 200s bce, were often mummified with their horses.

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