Now to tell the truth, the two mummieshe had gathered already quite satisfied my small ambition.
Very kind of you, but I've got no use for any more mummies done up in goatskin bags.
Twenty years after this was written, the Licentiate Polo de Ondegardo discovered where five of these figures were concealed, which proved to be the actual mummies of the Yncas and their wives, dressed in their clothes.
The mummies were taken to Lima by order of the Viceroy Marquis of Cañete, and eventually interred there, at the hospital of San Andres.
Higgs vulgarly, "if there were such things I have slept with too many mummies not to see them.
The place was in shadow, except for the firelight, which shone upon a table laid ready for dinner, and upon an extraordinary collection of antiquities, including a couple of mummies with gold faces arranged in their coffins against the wall.
I never saw Guanche mummies but in the cabinets of Europe.
The conformation of the skull has some slight resemblance to that of the white race of the ancient Egyptians; and the incisive teeth of the Guanches are blunted, like those of the mummies found on the banks of the Nile.
We ask at Teneriffe what is become of the Guanches, whose mummies alone, buried in caverns, have escaped destruction?
Is it to be endured," he says, "that the mummies of old and forgotten laws are to be dug up and unswathed for the annoyance of dissenters?
And yet a few hours later, this eloquent orator is himself hard at work in digging up and unswathing another set of mummies for the annoyance of another set of dissenters.
Two mummies of Canarian origin have lately been added to the collection, and the library has become respectable.
La Isleta appears to have been a burial-ground of the indigenes, who, instead of stowing away their mummies in caves, built detached sepulchres and raised tumuli of scoriae over their embalmed dead.
Such appears to have been the case with the mummies under consideration.
Besides being ensculped upon monuments and tablets, Scarabaei, as images in baked earth, are found in great numbers with the mummies of Egypt.
Four species of Dermestes were found in the head of one of the mummiesbrought by Sir J.
Embalming was still in vogue among the Egyptians in the time of St Augustine, who says that they termed mummies gabbarae (Serm.
He unwrapped his mummies and deciphered his moldering papyri, living far more in ancient Egypt than in modern Washington.
In the earliest sarcophagi in the Serapeum no mummies were found, only a few bones.
A number of the amulets found upon mummies are inscribed with words of power, or magic formulae, which would prove of use to them in the otherworld.
The scarabs which were found on Egyptian mummies typified this hope of resurrection, and have been found in Egyptian tombs as old as the time of the Fourth Dynasty.
As nothing beyond the chamber and the narrow entrance were made, we can there hide the mummies from this chamber and heap stones and earth over the entrance, so that none would suspect its existence.
I can replace the mummies in their cases after you have left, and they will be none the worse for their temporary removal.
What happened to him I know not, but the place was never used beyond this chamber, which has been utilized for mummies of sacred animals.
The mummies in their cases were taken out, the outer cases opened and replaced in the coffins after the mummies with the inner cases had been removed from them.
At the same time, the stench of the horns and mummies increasing, most of the crowd fell backward in a state of suffocation.
By secret stairs, known only to herself and her son, she first repaired to the mysterious recesses in which were deposited the mummies that had been brought from the catacombs of the ancient Pharaohs.
There were but few visitors to the grove ofmummies that afternoon.
No tar barrel could have burnt as those mummies did.
I stared and stared again--he was perfectly right--the torches that were to light our entertainment were human mummies from the caves!
Images of the gods perhaps developed out of mummies of the dead, and a sacred or even secular drama developed out of funeral dances, 189.
When the number of these relics begins to incommode the living inmates of the house, the older mummies are removed and deposited in the hollow trunks of ancient trees.
Agatha persists in believing that my mummies are the bodies of people like she saw in Egypt last year.
Or else the horses would be ordered out and they would wander over the lonely mountains in the interior of the island, talking of mummies and all things human, of Angela and all things divine.
Most of these tombs, which were broken into at a very distant period, were used as receptacles for shapeless mummies carelessly embalmed, which still exhibit traces of leprosy and elephantiasis.
They were yellow and dried up like mummies by night watches, study, and austerity; the fatigue entailed by successive initiations could be read upon their faces, in which their eyes alone seemed to retain life.
The necropolis would have invaded the city, and the stark mummies in their bandages would have stood up by the wall of the hearth.
For historical pathology the examination of mummies and skeletons is yielding good results.
Seqenenre is here a leading name; the mummy of the third Seqenenre, the earliest in the great find of royal mummies at Deir el Bahri, shows the head frightfully hacked and split, perhaps in a battle with the Hyksos.
Although I have myself seen the natural mummies preserved at Kreuzberg on the Rhine, I can say nothing more with regard to them, than vouch for the accuracy of the accounts transmitted by your various correspondents under this head.
They are, so to speak, perfect mummies of temples, while of the old buildings we have nothing but the disjointed and damaged skeletons.
The tomb has yielded an almost incredible treasure of funerary furniture, besides the actual mummies of Tii's parents, including a chariot overlaid with gold.
There is no proof whatever that she was not a native Egyptian, and the mummies of her parents, Iuaa and Tuaa, are purely Egyptian in facial type.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mummies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
