Midnight Facts for Insomniacs

Mummies and Death Rituals

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Every society faces an inevitable dilemma: what to do with dead bodies? Join Shane and Duncan as they travel across the globe and throughout history to explore Sky Burial, plastination, "Dancing with the Dead," and the most famous death ritual of all: mummification. 

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In this episode:  

  • The World's Oldest Known Burial Site: Qafzeh
  • Death Rituals Around the World
  • Famidihana: Dancing With the Dead (Turning of the Bones)
  • Buddhism and "Sky Burial"
  • Viking Funerals
  • South Korean "Death Beads"
  • Western Funerals
  • Mummification
  • Autolysis and Decomposition
  • Putrefaction
  • Intentional vs Unintentional Mummies
  • Otzi the Iceman
  • Juanita, the Peruvian Sacrifice
  • Egyptian Mummies
  • The Book of the Dead
  • The Ka, the Ba, and the Akh
  • The Journey Through Duat
  • The Hall of Maat
  • The Judgment of Anubis
  • Heart-Weighing
  • Ammit
  • The "Most Perfect Method" 
  • King Tut (Tutankhamun) 
  • Howard Carter and the Discovery of King Tut's Tomb
  • The Death Mask
  • The Legacy of Mummification
  • Plastination
  • Vladimir Ilyach Ulyanov Lenin
  • Summum: The Mummy Cult

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