Uan Muhuggiag

Uan Muhuggiag is a place in the central Sahara located in Libya, and the name of the mummy of a small boy found there in 1958 by Professor Fabrizio Mori. The mummy displays a highly sophisticated mummification technique, and at around 5,500 years old is older than any comparable Ancient Egyptian mummy.

The African culture that produced the mummy were cattle herders, and occupied much of North Africa, at a time when the Sahara was a savannah. (A change in the Earth's axis subsequently led to the climatic changes which created the modern Sahara desert.) Other links with later Egyptian culture have also been found, including the representation in rock art of dog-headed human figures (resembling Anubis), and a type of pottery decoration later found in the southern Nile valley.

External links

* [http://www.fulcrumtv.com/program.php?id=109&cat=factual&subcat=documentaries&year=2003 The Mystery of the Black Mummy -- Fulcrum TV]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865145,00.html Older than Egypt?]