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title: "Surprising Facts About Mummies"  
description: "Mummies have been wrapped up in countless creepy myths and exaggerated legends over the centuries, here's some Surprising Facts About Mummies"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-26  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1411/surprising-facts-about-mummies  
category: "history"  
tags: ["Mummy", "mummies", "facts", "surprising", "mummy facts", "Egypt", "ancient history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Surprising Facts About Mummies

![Surprising Facts About Mummies](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/914dbef5-8a27-44de-9fc0-9f5d996c4330/images/125667f1-a832-4991-8f74-d9cf873740e1.jpeg) ![Surprising Facts About Mummies](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/914dbef5-8a27-44de-9fc0-9f5d996c4330/images/3aed4dd4-786c-4b75-8990-0181dbc1fba3.jpeg) The Practice Didn't Start In Egypt, it starts in ancient So American culture known as the Chinchorro ![Surprising Facts About Mummies](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/914dbef5-8a27-44de-9fc0-9f5d996c4330/images/23cc3272-c2fa-4559-a4ae-da282bbb262a.jpeg) The Egyptian Process Took 70 Days ![Surprising Facts About Mummies](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/914dbef5-8a27-44de-9fc0-9f5d996c4330/images/ab160570-6aef-4945-8fc2-bfe63310327f.jpeg) They Left The Heart In Place ![Surprising Facts About Mummies](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/914dbef5-8a27-44de-9fc0-9f5d996c4330/images/f377e07b-8ace-4a1c-9ea7-8ed234e2c95d.jpeg) Egyptians Mummified Animals, Too ![Surprising Facts About Mummies](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/914dbef5-8a27-44de-9fc0-9f5d996c4330/images/0b673924-f2e9-484f-99f5-04279ceb944d.jpeg) They Only Weighed A Few Pounds ![Surprising Facts About Mummies](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/914dbef5-8a27-44de-9fc0-9f5d996c4330/images/935d67b5-6af5-4874-9da5-723b3f795497.jpeg) Mouths Were Often Left Open ![Surprising Facts About Mummies](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/914dbef5-8a27-44de-9fc0-9f5d996c4330/images/125667f1-a832-4991-8f74-d9cf873740e1.jpeg) Mummification Was A Lucrative Business ![Surprising Facts About Mummies](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/914dbef5-8a27-44de-9fc0-9f5d996c4330/images/c9268276-e869-4cf1-a93a-36009e809a60.jpeg) Remains Were Used In Medicine In The Middle Ages

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