The Mummies, 1990, Rekkids; Never Been Caught album, Telstar, 2002
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In 1995 Jewett and popster Allen Clapp, calling themselves The Winthers, wrote the song "Where's Larry?" which appeared on the spinART Records compilation Lemonlime. Members of Jewett's first band, Foster City–based The Batmen, included Allen Clapp as well as Maz Kattuah and Larry Winther of The Mummies.
They have released such bands as Marble Orchard (second single released by Estrus) Soledad Brothers, The Drags, The Mummies, Impala, Man or Astro-man?, the Makers, Gas Huffer, The Mooney Suzuki, DMBQ, The Cherry Valence, Midnight Evils, Mono Men, Federation X, The Trashwomen, Satan's Pilgrims, Immortal Lee County Killers, The Dexateens, and Southern Culture on the Skids.
"(You Must Fight To Live) On The Planet of The Apes" is a cover of The Mummies song and features Rusty Hopkinson on lead vocals.
He founded the Hospital of San Andrés, also at Lima, and had the mummies of the Incas Viracocha, Yupanqui, and Huayna Capac moved there.
The mummies of monks (Sokushinbutsu) in Japan practised nyūjō (入定), which caused their own death by adhering to a wood eating diet made up of salt, nuts, seeds, roots, pine bark, and urushi tea.
Thomas Hoving, director of the Met and the primary negotiator in the purchase, later said in his memoirs, Making the Mummies Dance, "An intact red-figured Greek vase of the early sixth century B.C. could only have been found in Etruscan territory in Italy, by illegal excavators".
Laguna de las Momias (Lagoon of the Mummies), also known as Laguna de los Cóndores (Lagoon of the Condors) is an archaeological site located in Leimebamba in the Amazonas Region of Peru, excavated by the archaeologist Federico Kauffmann Doig.
In the late 1970s, filmmaker Werner Herzog took footage of a number of the mummies for the title sequence of his film Nosferatu the Vampyre in order to conjure a morbid, eerie atmospheric opening sequence.
Sydney Barnett was the founder's son who purchased and brought back from Egypt some of the mummies the museum is now famous for returning to Dr Hawass of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Four of the mummies, including Tutankhamun, were shown to have had Malaria tropica.