The word 'mummy' is generally used for a body which has been preserved over a long period of time. A recently-preserved body is usually referred to as 'embalmed'.
A mummy is the body of a person (or an animal) that has been preserved after death
It is called a mummy.
Because with a Mummy, the tissues are preserved. Where as with a fossil, you have no tissue. You're really only left with fossilized bones.
There are naturally preserved mummies which include:desert mummies , freeze dried mummies/ refrigerated mummies, bog bodies,Deliberately preserved mummies which include:egyptian mummies, chinese mummies, aleutian island mummy , Incan mummies and modern mummies
Basically, a mummy.
As long as it could be preserved.
his mummy was beautifuly preserved
It is called a mummy
Mummy's are preserved in hot dry conditions when they are mummified.
The word 'mummy' is generally used for a body which has been preserved over a long period of time. A recently-preserved body is usually referred to as 'embalmed'.
I believe, that would be a mummy.
The preserved body of a dead person.
Flora preserved jam every year. The mummy was perfectly preserved. I preserved a petal of the rose in my copy of The Scarlet Letter. The preserved skin tissue helped identify the body.
Yes, the noun 'mummy' is a common noun, a general word for a preserved human or animal body.
Mummy
A mummy is the body of a person (or an animal) that has been preserved after death