Mummies
Mummies found or displayed within WHS
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Abbey of St Gall | Egyptian mummy in the library of the monastery | |
| Ancient Thebes | Mummy of Ramesses II was found here (now displayed in Cairo museum). Also Tutankhamun and others | |
| Arequipa | Mummy Juanita, on display in Catholic University of Santa María's Museum of Andean Sanctuaries (Museo Santuarios Andinos) | |
| Chinchorro Culture | The Chinchorro innovated continuously in their mummification practices to create artificial mummies that possessed extraordinary material, sculptural, and aesthetic qualities (AB ev) | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| Hiraizumi | Mummies of the three Fujiwara lords at Chusonji Temple | |
| Kremlin and Red Square | Body of Lenin | |
| Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra | Pechersk Lavra: hundreds of mummified bodies of monks | |
| Lima | Body of Pizarro | |
| Mammoth Cave | Several pre-Columbian mummies have been found preserved. | |
| Memorial Sites of Genocide | Murambi: "in some of which the mummified bodies and skulls and bones of victims are displayed" (AB ev) | |
| Potosi | Several young children, displayed in La Moneda | |
| Pyramids (Memphis) | Numerous | |
| Qadisha Valley | Maronite mummies | |
| Qhapaq Ñan | Piramide del Cerro Aconcagua (AR-PIN-20/CS-2011) "with its ceremonial site in La Piramide (ca. 5,300 MASL), has, in a dry-stone wall structure, the mummified body of a child..........In the protected landfill of one of the dry-stone walls there was the funerary bundle containing the tightly folded body of an infant of some 7 years of age, half-buried and slanted due to displacement" (Nom File) | |
| 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 Eugène de Croÿ, the commander of the Russian army at Battle of Narva (1700). | |
| Teide National Park | "The prehispanic population of Tenerife (Guanches) buried their dead in caves. Many corpses are totally or partially mummified." | |
| Tiwanaku | Preservation, use, and reconfiguration of mummy bundles and skeletal remains |
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