The Libyan Mummy and Egyptian mummification

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

The mummified child of Uan Muhuggiag (Wan Mujaij) predates
intentionally mummified Egyptian dead by centuries. Some see
him as the precursor to Egyptian mummification. But is there
any justification for that view?

Comparing the two types of preparations in what ways are
they similar and more important, how do they differ? What
evidence exists that links the Libyan technique to that of
Egypt prompting the idea of continuity between them?

Have other mummies of pre-dynastic age been found
in the Acacus? What culture associates with the Acacus
mummy? Why would its people as lliving as far west as
what's now Libya's border with Algeria trek toward the
Nile rather than the much closer Mediterranean littoral
once heavy desertification set in? What does the rock
art indicate, that the population stayed put or migrated?

Is it valid that the people and culture of c. 3500 BCE south
western Libya migrated to Egypt bringing the concept of the
mummy with them and if so why are the earliest Egyptian
ones produced by nature while the artificial method occurs
much later?


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[Dawn2Earth]

Your questions are valied, these could be completely unrelated cases although nearby.

There are mummies from cultures all over the world from the Americas to East Asia. However, the proximity of these combined with the fact folks see rock painting peoples from the region around about Sudan to Egypt to Algeria who roamed the region without apparent restrictions as being related to the A.E., so it is thought that this behavior could be pre-cursor to AE civilization. I believe there exist tombs of rulers from the complete opposite edge of the Saharan region as Egypt that date to around contemporary times as the Pharaohnic era.

Possibility of inspiration is not inspiration though, and so due to Occaim's razor I would say we cannot say definitively on the mummification-diffusion hypothesis.

[anansi]

Well we would have to see what other cultural expressions/items that region shared with the Nile valley folks during the green Sahara phase.