1. The World’s First Mummies The Chinchorro People of Chile

2. Over 2,000 years before the Egyptians started to mummify their dead, the Chinchorro people were creating mummies Three distinct styles—black, red, and mud-coated Everyone was mummified- it didn’t matter who you were When they stopped mummifying their dead, King Tut had not even been born Fast Facts

4. To the Chinchorro mummification was… deliberate preservation of their dead deeply religious act—a study in devotion bridge between the world of the living and the dead

5. Artifacts Everything from fishhooks and lines to harpoons and atlatls (spear thrower) have been found.

6. 1.Cut off the head and limbs 2.Take the skin off 3.Remove the brain 4.Clean the flesh off the bones 5.Dry the bones 6.Put the limbs back together and bind them with sticks, reeds, and grass 7.Rewrap the limbs with the original skin or bits of seal skin 8.Hollow out the trunk of the body and dry it with hot ash 9.Reassemble the whole body with sticks for support 10.Stuff the body with dry grass or ashes 11.Cover the body and face with layers of ash paste and make a mask 12.Attach a wig of human hair 13.Paint everything black with manganese The Process:

15. The structure of their skeletons and condition of their bones suggest an average life expectancy of about 25 years. Many adults would have reached their 30s; a few may have made it to their 50s, a long life for anyone in prehistory. About 282 mummies have been found. About half of these were made by nature. In their time, you would almost be middle aged!

16. Other Famous Mummies

17. Inca Ice Mummies Victims of Human Sacrifice Left on tops of Mountains were they were frozen

19. Incan Emperors Faces were covered with golden masks

21. Otzi the Iceman lived about 3,300 BCE discovered in 1991

22. The Mummies of Egypt

23. Anubis: god of mummification

24. Weighing of the Soul

25. Canopic Jars

27. King Tut: The Boy King