The unique Mummies of the World exhibition is finally in Budapest

If there is an exhibition you should not miss this year, then this is it – Funzine.hu warns you. The Mummies of the World exhibition has finally opened in Hungary, providing the most extensive collection of mummies on the continent.

We already reported the great news that the exhibition is coming to Budapest. Now we can give you more enticing details. The exhibits are composed in a way they have never been before,

showcasing mummies of the last 4500 years, from Egypt through the early South-American cultures and the European Middle Ages, up until 18^th-century Hungary.

The bodies and different objects of the Mummies of the World exhibition  arrived to Budapest owing to the collaboration of researchers, museums, private collections and scientific institutes from Hungary and abroad.

Why is the exhibition special?

“Thanks to the new scientific methods we can look into the bodies so that they can tell their stories” explained anthropologist Ildikó Szikossy, one of the curators. “They tell us how people lived in their times, we can learn about their nutrition, personal tragedies, illnesses and the circumstances of their death.

There are many interesting relics but these bodies tell the most about the people of the past.”

The Mummies of the World exhibition shows us how the bodies were preserved naturally, you can see for example the ice-mummy of a rabbit, or corpses dried by the heat, beside one of the famous “bog bodies”: the body of a woman from the Iron Age that was preserved due to the oxygen deficient environment in the Netherlands.

Some of the most interesting exhibits

There is the great mystery of the “Transylvanian Mummy”, the body of a well-built man. Nature also preserved his remains for 300 years but we do not know much more about him.