Before property lines, deeded lands, even before the written word was common, how would you show that land belonged to you and your family? Perhaps by showing where your ancestors were buried on the property? But what happened when one family married into another and the land now belonged to both? No one wants too many bodies around, so how about taking parts from multiple bodies among the families, binding them together, mummifying them, and then burying them?

Sound too strange to be true? It’s actually one of the theories surrounding mummies in England that are composed from multiple people.