By: Phanx
"How do we know they aren't singing?" They are, they are. Always look on the bright side of life...
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Oops, sorry pyrex! (I too would scream if I woke up mummified! Though now that I think about it, you wouldn't have to worry about that since you'd definitely be dead after they removed all your...
View ArticleBy: athenian
Really interesting, thanks amyms. A couple of weekends ago I took my 4-year-old daughter to the British Museum and she was just fascinated by the concept of mummies. I may wait a bit before showing her...
View ArticleBy: sexyrobot
yeah, i understand, but her portraits are freakin' scary. there's a bunch out there that emulate the scowl on the one i linked to. srsly, how did whoever did that not get executed for it?
View ArticleBy: Halloween Jack
Apropos of nothing, I was unexpectedly saddened when I saw a mummy of a child in Chicago's Field Museum that had the covering over its toes eroded away, exposing the bones. Poor little mummy kid, going...
View ArticleBy: CynicalKnight
Why do mummies scream? For the same reason dog lick their balls - because they can.
View ArticleBy: pyrex
Um.. Kirjava, I didn't say anything about this Queen Tiye, that was sexyrobot. My post, which is right above said post is the silly little tale of a mummy encased in box after box-like structure :-)
View ArticleBy: Kirjava
By the way pyrex, I'm rather disappointed to see you describe Queen Tiye as a complete bitch. I've always admired her for being an extraordinary woman who was obviously much loved by her husband, King...
View ArticleBy: Kirjava
Even though they're not actually screaming, there are certainly other mummies that do testify to 'horrific deaths', like the brilliantly ghastly mummy of Seqenenre Tao II who was probably killed in...
View ArticleBy: Xoebe
You know, I have been seeing these images ever since I was old enough to flip open the pages of Ntional Geographic, and it never occurred to me once that they were screaming or that they held a visage...
View ArticleBy: graventy
Mummies scream because they are the worst damn enemies in Zelda and they use that scream to freeze you and then hump your face against your will oh god why is such an awful enemy in such a great game...
View ArticleBy: sexyrobot
i've been fascinated lately with queen tiye (ankhenaten's mother) who seems, from numerous portraits, like she was, how do we put this nicely, a complete bitch. however, i recently found this picture...
View ArticleBy: pyrex
If I woke up to find myself covered in bandages, I too would scream. If I then discovered I was inside in a box, and that that box was inside of another box made of stone, I would scream louder. If I...
View ArticleBy: Joey Michaels
Because mummies know better than to keep their emotions bottled up inside. They also know better than to keep their inner organs bottled up inside and, thus, keep them bottled up outside.
View ArticleBy: tellurian
But, then again, as my colleague Paul Bahn points out, "How do we know they aren't singing?" NO! I've got Flash and the Pan swirling through my brain now.
View ArticleBy: FelliniBlank
Man, the pictures of ol' Unknown Man E gave me many a sleepless night as a small child. The theory that I read next to those pictures was that he had been buried alive. Yeeikes, and I thought I was...
View ArticleBy: barnacles
Man, screw them screamy mummies. I'd rather a peacefully sleeping mummy any day. Or maybe a frozen-but-still-got-my-eyeball dude.
View ArticleBy: ...possums
"They'd tried a technique involving sub-dermal mud packing to flesh out her cheeks, and when she was dry, her face split open and flaked away -- but I would have believed she could still see me . . ."...
View ArticleBy: brundlefly
Remember Brundlefly's First Law: All mummies are zombies, but not all zombies are mummies.
View ArticleBy: Countess Elena
Man, the pictures of ol' Unknown Man E gave me many a sleepless night as a small child. The theory that I read next to those pictures was that he had been buried alive. This seems less likely if resin...
View ArticleBy: dersins
Why do mummies scream? Because we're naughty children who need to be scolded?
View ArticleScreaming Mummies!
Why do mummies scream?Are screaming mummies really testaments to horrific deaths? Or are they the result of natural processes, botched or ad hoc mummification jobs, or the depredations of tomb robbers?...
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