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The world mummy ultimately comes from Persian word mum, which means wax. In Arabic form mumiya it was used for the bituminous embalming substance.
by BerislavLopac 4y ago
The world mummy ultimately comes from Persian word mum, which means wax. In Arabic form mumiya it was used for the bituminous embalming substance.
- r3trohack3r 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia You're partially right. It didn't start being called "mummy" until it was associated with harvesting the substance from embalmed corpses IIUC > Beginning around the 12th century when supplies of imported natural bitumen ran short, mummia was misinterpreted as "mummy", and the word's meaning expanded to "a black resinous exudate scraped out from embalmed Egyptian mummies".