mummyembalmed body

Persian mūmiyā was mineral pitch, named from mūm 'wax'. Arabic doctors prescribed it as a drug, and medieval Europe ground up Egyptian embalmed bodies to get it, so the drug's name passed to the bodies themselves; Russian mumiyo still names a mountain tar.

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