HSIE - Elective History - Year 9 - Preserved Human Remains: Greenland Mummies

Fourteen Thule Culture Inuit mummies are described here, including remarks on the cultural and archaeological setting of the Thule people. The mummy finds pertain to two mummy caches: six mummies found near Nuuk, at the site Pissisarfik, and eight mummies from Qilakitsoq.

Humans have always had a morbid fascination with death and the dead. Preserving the dead dates back thousands of years. To the ancient Egyptians, death was only the beginning, and embalming bodies was a regular occurrence, as was typical of many ancient cultures. Some dead are mummified as a political statement, others by complete accident.
Tutankhamun may be the most famous mummy in the world, but he certainly is not the most well-preserved. There are other examples of mummification, either natural or otherwise, that leave King Tut for dead, no pun intended.
Here are some of the world's best-preserved mummies; each has its tale to tell. The stories behind some of these corpses is nothing short of mind-blowing.

Ramesses II (1279-1213 BCE, alternative spellings: Ramses, Rameses) was known to the Egyptians as Userma'atre'setepenre, which means 'Keeper of Harmony and Balance, Strong in Right, Elect of Ra'.