Uan Muhuggiag
Uan Muhuggiag is a place in the central
Sahara, and the name of the
mummy of a small boy found there in 1958 by Professor Fabrizio Mori. The mummy displays a highly sophisticated mummification technique, and at around 5,500 years old is older than any comparable
Ancient Egyptian mummy.
The African culture that produced the mummy were
cattle herders, and occupied much of North Africa, at a time when the Sahara was a
savannah. (A change in the Earth's axis subsequently led to the climatic changes which created the modern Sahara desert.) Other links with later Egyptian culture have also been found, including the representation in
rock art of dog-headed human figures (resembling
Anubis), and a type of pottery decoration later found in the southern Nile valley.
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The Mystery of the Black Mummy
