BERLIN (AFP) — The world's biggest mummy exhibition has opened in Germany, with 70 preserved specimens from around the world, organisers said Thursday.
The show at the Zeughaus Museum in the southwestern city of Mannheim, "Mummies -- The Dream of Eternal Life," presents a variety of naturally and artificially mummified corpses from Ancient Egypt as well as Asia, the Americas, the Pacific Islands and Europe.
Highlights include a unique Peruvian mummy of a dead child, the so-called Windeby Girl found in a peat bog in northern Germany in the 1950s and a 3,000-year-old preserved pet dog, fur and all.
The exhibition also looks at methods with which the body could be preserved in future with advanced freezing techniques.
"Cryonics is the key word inspiring the dream of eternal life," the museum said in a statement.
The show runs to March 24.
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