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this discovery, the oldest known deliberate mummy was a child, one of the Chinchorro mummies found in the Camarones Valley, Chile, which dates around 5050 B.C. The oldest known naturally mummified human corpse is a severed head dated as 6,000 years old, found in 1936 at the Cueva de las Momias in Argentina.

Etymology and meaning

The English word mummy is derived from medieval Latin Mumia, a borrowing of the medieval Arabic word mumiya (??????) which meant an embalmed corpse,

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