The British museum, The mummy of Ginger

The most famous mummy in the Egyptian collection of the British museum is the one called Ginger. Ginger's mummy is the oldest so far as it is around 3200 B.C and dates back to the predynastic era. A collection of Predynastic mummies were discovered, some of that collection were naturally preserved while some was artificially preserved. Ginger belongs to the fetal- mummy type as it took the shape of an embryo in a mother's womb. In the early believes of prehistoric Egypt, the earth was believed to a mother goddess and that explain why the early mummies took that shape. Copyrig © 2006