Animal

Animal mummies fall into two very broad categories; natural and deliberate. The ancient Egyptians mummified animals just as they would humans; animals were central to the ancient Egyptian belief system. Most animals had connections to a particular deity, and after death, mummified animals’ souls could carry a message to a god. In the ancient burial ground at Saqqara, Egypt, one animal cemetery alone has yielded over four million individual ibis mummies, a nearby dog cemetery contained over seven million mummies.

Natural mummies on the other hand are accidents of environment, numerous species have been preserve in permafrost, such as the Batagai Foal, or in arid conditions, such as Peru's Mummy Dogs, or in unexpected and unique conditions, such as Stuckie.