Find out more about the world's weirdest mummies
Here are the details of mummy events around the country and on Discovery Channel this month.
Where to see a mummy
Animal Mummies of Ancient Egypt runs to 3 July 2005 at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Akeman Street, Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23 6AP. Call 020 7942 6171 for details or check http://www.nhm.ac.uk/museum/tring/. On show: cats, a baboon, a crocodile and birds of prey.
The Mysterious Bog People runs to 8 May 2005 at the Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, M3 4FP. Call 0161 832 2244 or check http://www.msim.org.uk/. On show: Yde girl, a 16-year-old with a half-shaved head. She was strangled and placed in Dutch bog around 2000 years ago.
You could also check out:
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/
The Liverpool Museum
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/livmus/
The Royal Museum of Scotland
http://www.nms.ac.uk/royal/index.asp
The British Museum in London
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Discovery Channel TV programmes
Mummies: Frozen in Time - UK - 7 April @ 16.00
Forensic anthropologist Dr. Kathy Reichs explores how humans have been preserved through the ages. Whether by accident of design, many have been mummified, be it dried by arid desert sands, freeze-dried by cold air, frozen by ice, or cryogenically flash-frozen.
Mummy Autopsy - UK - from 8 April @ 22.00 (every Friday thereafter)
Mummies That Made Themselves - Civilisation - 25 April @ 22.00
In the mountains of Northern Japan there are several temples containing human mummies. Unlike the ancient mummies of Egypt, these mummies are less than three hundred years old and, according to folklore, are the bodies of monks who mummified themselves whilst they were still alive. This programme studies their remarkable feat of overriding all of the body's natural instincts of survival and decomposition after death and explores what motivated the monks to attempt such an unusual ritual.
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