A word may be added about the use of mummy in medicine.
In most of the tombs is a chamber in which the mummy was placed, the Egyptian Christians at first continuing this method of preserving the bodies of their dead.
It was not till the 18th century that the importance of mummy in all its forms waned, and in some of the least progressive quarters of central Europe it survived even to the middle of the 19th.
In many cases the mummy had to be conveyed across the Nile, and boats were gaily decked out for this purpose.
Seqenenr is here a leading name; the mummy of the third Seqenenr, the earliest in.