(monday) history in your game

[alsih2o]

mummies baby!

i tried to finsd a broad spectrum, rather than covering one type or locale in-depth. ice mummies, desert, egyptian, bog...all kinds of ideas for mummies in your game.


jr. high school-ish page about egyptian mummies. some good basic info and some silly games and such- http://www.neferchichi.com/mummies.html

modern mummification- http://www.summum.org/mummification/philosophy.shtml

"mystery" page, with soem info in a mummy curse- http://www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egtut04e.html

“Modern science has finally found the secret of why some mummies can last for thousands of years,”- http://www.msnbc.com/news/983621.asp?0ql=c8p

mummies in china- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/

like props? here is how to make your own mummy- http://www.mummytombs.com/main.mummymaking.htm

great interactive page on incan mummies(graphic intensive)- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inca/

nova does the same, les graphic- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/peru/

taking a mummy apart with modern technology, x-rays and cat scans(all graphics are linked, for slower connections)- http://www.sci.qut.edu.au/physci/seminar/mummies/

bog mummy, lindow man- http://www.mummytombs.com/mummylocator/featured/lindowman.htm

more bog mummies in the netherlands- http://www.mummytombs.com/museums/nl.assen.drents.yde.htm

mummies as art- http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/chinchorro/index.html

have a good wek and a good game

 

[Imhotepthewise]

Look at the story of the Niagara Falls Mummies.

http://www.egyptianmuseum.com/article17_archmagApril2003.htm

I hope this link works. Great story of a museum, a couple of eccentrics, a few mummies, and other stuff. Nat'l Enquirer couldn't do it better.

Thinking of using it as a base for a d20 Ghostbusters one-shot.

 

[fusangite]

Thanks for this Clay. Informative as ever. If you take requests, try doing medieval accounts of dog-headed men (most famously Saint Christopher) next week.