Editing Mummy (section)

== {{anchor|Anthropogenic|Spontaneous|Natural}}Types ==
Mummies are typically divided into one of two distinct categories: anthropogenic or spontaneous. Anthropogenic mummies were deliberately created by the living for any number of reasons, the most common being for religious purposes. Spontaneous mummies, such as [[Ötzi]] and the [[Maronite mummies]], were created unintentionally due to natural conditions such as extremely dry heat or cold, or [[acidic]] and [[Hypoxia (environmental)|anaerobic]] conditions such as those found in [[bog body|bogs]].{{sfn|Aufderheide|2003|p=2}} While most individual mummies exclusively belong to one category or the other, there are examples of both types being connected to a single culture, such as those from the ancient Egyptian culture and the Andean cultures of South America.<ref name="Dunn">{{cite web |last=Dunn |first=Jimmy |title=An Overview of Mummification in Ancient Egypt |date=22 August 2011 |url=http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/mummification.htm |access-date=9 November 2013}}</ref> Some of the later well-preserved corpses of the mummification were found under [[Christian church]]es, such as the mummified [[vicar]] [[Nicolaus Rungius]] found under the St. Michael Church in [[Keminmaa]], [[Finland]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oulu.fi/university/node/53287 |title=Mummy studies contribute to knowledge of Northern Finnish disease history – University of Oulu |access-date=12 August 2020 |archive-date=28 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128060940/https://www.oulu.fi/university/node/53287 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.visitsealapland.com/en/visitors/sea-lapland/churches/ Churches – Visit Sea Lapland]</ref> There are also cases that fall outside of these categories.