Basic Mummies

Another basic undead variant, mummies, in general, are simply corpses of humans or animals that are preserved and kept from further decomposition. This can occur naturally through extremely cold, or from extremely dry environments, however is often done intentionally to preserve the body, most commonly associated with Egyptian mummies, as they were the first to develop a process of mummification.

Much like zombies, mummies are often shuffling undead, their limbs occasionally bent and twisted in unnatural ways. Unlike zombies though, mummies attacks do not often cause the sufferer to become a zombie but do often spread a mummies curse. For example, in Dungeons and Dragons, a mummy can inflict Mummy Rot, which if left untreated, will cause the victim to turn to ash. Mummies have one more strong difference to that of zombies, and that is their reliance on magic. While zombies have often been given pseudoscientific explanations for their existence in media, mummies have always being brought to life through a curse or magic, and as such also can rely on magic abilities. Interestingly, the idea of romance is often brought up with zombies in media as well, with many novels written of mummies being sexual partners to archaeologists? Gross but fun fact.