| 词源 |
mummy. The Egyptians preserved the corpses of their dead in elaborate ways, concluding the process by wrapping a corpse in bandages and waterproofing the bandages with a waxy pitch that their Persian conquerors called mum. This word became mummia in Arabic and, over a thousand years later, changed to mummy in English, coming to mean not only the waxy pitch covering the bandages but the preserved body itself. |