Mummies

Mummies found or displayed within WHS

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Mummies':

  • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis Mummy of Ramesses II was found here (now displayed in Cairo museum). Also Tutankhamun and others
  • Convent of St. Gall Egyptian mummy in the library of the monastery
  • Cuzco "Royal Mummies" kept at Cuzco were all destroyed by the conquistadores. Cuzco museum still has other mummies.
  • Gebel Barkal Most tombs emptied but eg one mummy found at Nuri c1984 by thieves who were apprehended.
  • Golden Mountains of Altai Pazyryk mummies; link
  • Guanajuato The Mummies of Guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833. The bodies were mummified due to the air and weather in the area.
  • Kiev Pechersk Lavra: hundreds of mummified bodies of monks
  • Kremlin and Red Square Body of Lenin
  • Lima Body of Pizarro
  • Mammoth Cave Several pre-Columbian mummies have been found preserved.
  • Pyramids (Memphis) Numerous
  • Qadisha Valley Maronite mummies; link
  • Quebrada de Humahuaca Tilcara museum holds a mummy that originates from San Pedro de Atacama (Chile)
  • Tadrart Acacus The "black Mummy" - a Mummified infant was found in a rock shelter at Uan Muhuggiag in 1958. Carbon dating indicates it predates known Egyptian mummification.
  • Tallinn St Nicholas' Church The side chapel used to hold the mummy of Duke Charles Eugène de Croÿ, the commander of the Russian army at Battle of Narva (1700).
  • Tiwanaku Preservation, use, and reconfiguration of mummy bundles and skeletal remains