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Combining cold and dry conditions can mummify bodies even when it’s not consistently chilly enough to keep a body frozen year-round.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the workshops had been used to mummify humans and sacred animals.

From Washington Times ● May 27, 2023

These injuries suggest that Dakota’s carcass remained unburied and vulnerable to scavenging for some time after the dinosaur’s death—but if the dino wasn’t rapidly buried, how did it mummify?

From Scientific American ● Oct. 14, 2022

In drier climes, it can mummify for years; in wetter ones, a face becomes a skull in weeks.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2019

The afternoon had become as hot as meanness, and since the shirt he was wearing had enough starch in it to mummify two, maybe three, pharaohs, he began to feel he could hardly breathe.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

In honeybees, this fungus causes an illness known as stonebrood disease, which mummifies the young bees.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2023

She was recently packing for a trip to visit Summum, a group in Utah that mummifies pets.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2011

Your team mummifies you with five tight belts.

From Time Magazine Archive

And, again rightly or wrongly, I have also contended that the hand of purpose deadens and mummifies story.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

It is often claimed that phosphorus eaten by rats or mice dries up or mummifies the body so that no odor results.

From House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 by David E. Lantz

Painted on wood, it was attached to his mummified body, a reminder that magic didn’t always have the power to work miracles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

A mummified male head, right foot and a right hand recovered from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor were also taken out of public view.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Altogether, the excavations produced 341 dog bone specimens representing at least 19 individual dogs, in addition to the complete mummified male dog.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The Academy Museum wanted the original mummified Mrs. Bates head from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” but there was one problem: She was too fragile to travel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

As with the Inka, the kings’ mummified bodies continued to live opulently in their own homes and could not be displaced; indeed, the mummies were necessary presences at important state occasions.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Rühli says he believes this could have inspired ancient Egyptians to start mummifying their honored dead.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

That's the question my Food52 colleagues asked when they saw me mummifying avocado halves in plastic wrap to prepare them for life eternal in the freezer.

From Salon ● May 15, 2021

Forget a quick splodge of face paint or mummifying yourself in loo roll - celebrities always bring their costume A-game for Halloween.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2019

Logically I know, of course, that such power is a fantasy, just as the necrologists of ancient Egypt surely suspected, from time to time, that the artifice of their mummifying efforts was ultimately for naught.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2018

“We’re collecting materials for our Great Tomb Project. We’d like to keep our things here until we need them. We’re mummifying someone this week.”

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina