點解木乃伊叫mummy?(10分)

木乃伊是在人工防腐情況下或自然條件下可以長久保存的屍體。木乃伊一詞源自波斯語，原義為蠟，歐洲人用來指古埃及塗抹防腐香料保存至今的屍體，中國自明代以來將其音譯為木乃伊。

古埃及人認為人死後可以復活，而復活的條件是保存屍體。

製作木乃伊需要先將屍體挖去內臟，浸過鹽水，在腹腔填以乳香、桂皮等香料，縫合後把屍體浸入特製的防腐液中，經70天取出，再裹上麻布，填以香料，塗上樹脂，就做成了木乃伊。

有些科學家成功取得木乃伊的基因後，嘗試希望透過複製技術，把它們的基因複製至新的活人。

A mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs. The oldest mummified head is Chulina, 6000 year old, found in 1936 and AMS dated in Zürich in 2005.

The English word mummy is derived from medieval Latin mumia, a borrowing of the Persian or Arabic word mūmiyyah (مومية), which means "bitumen". (Because of the blackened skin of bitumen was once thought to be used extensively in ancient Egyptian embalming procedures. Asphalt and tar are forms of bitumen.)