Sentences with 'mummy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mummy and other words derived from it.
• « The clothing of Liu Sheng's mummy consists of 2,690 jade plates and 1,100 grams of gold thread. The clothes were undoubtedly intended to protect the bodies from decomposition and served a function analogous to that of mummification in Egypt, but were also symbols of hierarchy. »
• « The newspapers in 1973 reported the news: an Egyptian mummy had appeared in a Parisian restaurant. »
• « When archaeologists are called in, they discover that the mummy has the characteristics of an Egyptian embalming, and although it is of no special value, the question remains: how did it end up in a Parisian underground? One possibility is that it may have been the spoils of Napoleon's soldiers. »