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Among the Torajans who have converted to Christianity or Islam, they no longer share the same beliefs about the dead and so no longer visit the dead in their relatives houses or participate in those traditional funeral rituals.
false
Among the Torajans, the dead are never buried. They remain 'living' with their relatives until their bodies break down and turn to dust.
false
Anthropogenic mummies are those created unintentionally due to natural conditions such as extremely dry heat or cold, or anaerobic conditions such as those found in peat bogs.
false
Excarnation is unique to Tibetan cultures who believe the only way to release the spirit of the individual is by removal of the flesh by knives.
false
Mammoth mummies preserved from glacial environments are not 'real' mummies because they have been frozen instead of dried.
false
Most cultures seek to hide their dead and/or bury them immediately for fear of ghosts or angry spirits.
false
Most early mummy films, both American and British, used the same plot device of the mummy returned from the dead to exact revenge and return to their seat of power.
false
Some living buddha's bodies are encased within statues or hard coverings to help preserve the bodies within. These 'living buddhas' are then placed in caves so only other Buddhist monks can worship and pray to them.
false
The Torajans re-clothe/dress their dead and take photos with them every year as part of their traditional practice.
false
The earliest purposeful burials of the dead took place in ancient Rome during the 8th century BC.
false
__________ discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922 under the financial support of the Lord of Carnarvon.
howard carter
Sunglasses were placed on mummified monks because:
Visitors viewing the body were disturbed by the lack of eyeballs
____ refers to the belief that divine intervention allows the bodies of saints and blessed people to avoid the normal process of decomposition.
incorruptibility
All of the following contributed to the preservation of sokushinbutsu bodies except:
ingestion of large amounts of millet
Mummies and mummy products were used as all of the following except:
production of ink for expensive pens
The term for an animated corpse that was believed to return from the grave to terrorize the living:
revenant
The stiffening of the body's muscle tissues after death occurs in the first stage of decomposition. This process is called:
rigor mortis
This mummy is 9,000 years old and was found in Nevada, making him one of the oldest humans found in North America!
spirit cave man
According to the film Curse of Tutankhamun, how did Lord Carnarvon die?
He was killed by blood poisoning from an infected mosquito bite on his cheek.
Elliot Smith and Howard Carter were among the first researchers to x-ray ancient mummies in order to scientifically study them in detail.
true
In 1907, Dr. Duncan Macdougall performed experiments to determine whether or not the soul could be weighed after death.
true
In Eastern European belief, doors and windows are opened after a death to ensure the soul can escape and not return into the body.
true
In some cultures, it it believed that the soul leaves the body during dreaming and may travel around the real world.
true
It isn't until all the funeral rituals and animal sacrifices and feasts have taken place that dead Torajans are seen as actually 'dead.'
true
Sometimes Torajans wait weeks or even years to save up enough money to pay for a proper funeral for their dead relatives.
true
The film The Mummy's Hand (1940) included many problems of continuity including describing the mummy as being buried alive and being embalmed.
true
Mark Twain's account of mummies being used as fuel is:
Interesting, but it is ultimately unclear if he was being hyperbolic or if he was telling the truth
In Egypt, the construction of this structure was the impetus (cause) for the largest destruction of mummies: -Inter-Egypt Sanitation Line -Aswan Dam -Nile Highway -Alexandria Library -Cairo-Thebes Rail Line
NOT alexandria library
The bare breasted image of the sphinx commonly found in European garden represents:
NOT fertility and faith
King Tutankhamen is the most famous Egyptian pharaoh today because: -he was the only pharaoh to be monotheistic. - his tomb is the most complete ever found and was virtually intact. -he was the last pharaoh of the Egyptian kingdom. - he was the youngest pharaoh in the history of ancient Egypt.
NOT he was the youngest pharaoh in the history of ancient egypt
The first Greek/Hellenic to conquer Egypt, crowning himself pharaoh and building temples to Egyptian gods, was:
NOT herodotus
The odors given off by the loss of body fluids and release of gases is strongest in which stage of decomposition? -Stage 2: Bloat - Stage 4: Dry Remains -Stage 1: Fresh -Stage 3: Putrefaction
NOT stage 2: bloat
What was the main reason the remnants of embalming substances were taken as a substitute for the original mumia? -They had a similar odor -They were similar in appearance -They were the same substance -They were more palatable
NOT they were more palatable
This eclectic design started in Paris in the 1920s. This style became the design of choice, following the linear simplicity seen in industry and the visual arts. Most of these designs were heavily influenced by the discovery of King Tut's tomb.
art deco
Examples of tattooing can be found on which of these groups of mummies:
all of these groups exhibit tattoos
Egyptians and the Greeks were contemporaries, but the magnificence of the Pyramids fascinated Greek scholars.
true
It wasn't until Boris Karloff's classic role in this film, ________________ (1932), that the modern concept of the mummy as a figure of horror took hold in cinema.
the mummy
Boris Karloff played the mummy of the accidentally revived priest Imhotep in this film, but only appears on screen in his iconic mummy makeup for a few minutes:
the mummy (1932)
Dr. Duncan Mcdougall proposed that a sudden drop in weight as a person passed away was due to:
the soul leaving the body
Corpses are known to naturally make a certain amount of noise during the process of decomposition.
true
