Imagine excavating a sarcophagus, opening it up to find yourself face to with this screaming mummy. In the past, archaeologists assumed, after finding these mummies that they must have been buried alive as seen on in The Mummy film (1999). Now however, they tend to agree that it is a result of the head falling back after burial, causing it to look like the individual was screaming at the point of death.
Examples of this include the discovery of "Unknown man E" a mummy discovered in Egypt in the 1880's. Some believe he may be the murderous son of Ramses III. These examples are not just a feature of Egypt, the photo on the left shows the remains of a mummy with his hands covering his face in what appears to be terror. It was amount a number of remains of the Chachapoya indians, found in Peru.
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