The most terrible discoveries.
Our planet holds many secrets. And all we can do, is to find clues to solve riddles of the past.
It is only in the movies, the mummies come to life, attacking people and excite their imagination. In life they do not carry any danger, but, on the contrary, are of great archaeological value.
Today we will talk about the 11 mummies, which are preserved in excellent condition and have helped scientists to make huge number of discoveries. However, their appearance still scares me a little…
Screaming mummy
Museum of Guanajuato in Mexico is one of the strangest and worst thing in the world. Here are collected the 111 mummies of people, most of whom died in the second half of the XIX century and buried in the local cemetery.
The mummies were exhumed in the period from 1865 to 1958. The fact that at that time the relatives of the deceased were charged tax for a place in the cemetery. If the payment was not made, the dead bodies were taken from the tombs. It turned out that some of them naturally mummified. These mummies were kept in a special room.
Over time, tourists started to wonder about these mummies and their view began to take the money. And formed the Museum… Some of the mummies were frozen with distorted facial expressions, it is believed that they were buried alive.
Boy from Greenland
Near the settlement Kilakila in 1972 was discovered a whole family, moumifizirovania due to the low temperatures. They died back during the middle Ages…
But the mummy year-old child, which (as scientists discovered) suffered from down syndrome, always makes a particularly strong impression on visitors of the Museum in Nuuk.
Juanita from the Peruvian Andes
Due to the ice on top of the Andes, the mummy girl, nicknamed Juanita, the perfectly preserved to the present day. She was sacrificed to the gods in the XV century. Incidentally, Juanita travels frequently. For example, it was shown in Washington and at the Central square in Japan.
Knight Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz
This German knight lived in the period from 1651 to 1702. According to legend, he was a great lover of use to the “right of first night”. He had 11 of his children and a huge number of illegitimate. Christians once again went through a proven against the wife of a local shepherd, but the girl refused him.
Christians have killed her husband-girls, and at the trial swore he was not guilty. Then the knight said that even if his body after death will turn into ashes if he did. In those days, because of the noble origin of the knight was enough of his honest words to release the man.
After the death knight was buried in the family vault. The last representative of the family von Kahlbutz died in 1783. And after 9 years in a local Church started a restoration. Then opened the tomb to rebury all of the remains. And it turned out that the bodies of all members of the genus have decayed, but the body Christian…
The Mummy Of Ramses The Great
This Pharaoh died in 1213 BC, it is said that he ruled Egypt during the famous campaign of Moses. One of the main features of the mummies is the presence of red hair — a symbol of connection with the God Seth.
In 1974, Egyptologists have discovered that the mummy began to rapidly deteriorate. It was decided to send her to France for restoration. Ramses made modern Egyptian passport. In the column “occupation” wrote “king (deceased)”. In France, the mummy was greeted with full honors, which are put at the arrival of other heads of state.
The mummy girl from Denmark
At the time of burial (approximately 1300 BC) and the girl was 18-19 years old. The deceased had long blond hair done in an elaborate hairstyle. Judging by the decorations the girl belonged to a noble family.
Ice man ötzi
At the time of opening the mummy was about 5300 years. The man, nicknamed ötzi, was discovered by tourists in the Tyrolean Alps. Now to admire it in the Museum of Bolzano. Here, too, not without curses: some people who have studied ötzi, died in strange circumstances.
Girl from IDA
It was discovered in 1897 near the Dutch village of IDA in the swamp. Around her neck was strung a loop. Apparently, the girl was punished for a crime or sacrificed. The results of carbon analysis conducted in 1992, saying that the girl died at the age of 16 is somewhere between 54 and 128 years BC
Part the hair on the head shaved, the rest have red hue that is typical of the corpses found in the swamp, because of the denaturalization of coloring pigment under the influence of acids. A CT scan determined that during the life of the girl had curvature of the spine, which was caused by bone tuberculosis.
People from the quagmire Rendsburg
This is another man who belongs to the so-called swamp people. Found him near the German town of Kiel in 1971. At the time of his death he was between 40 and 50 years. The cause of death is called the blow in head.
SETI I
Egyptian Pharaoh who was in power at 1290 1279 BC the Mummy was buried in a specially prepared tomb, which was discovered in 1881. In the movie “the Mummy” and “the Mummy returns” Network is depicted by the Pharaoh who fell victim to a conspiracy of the priest Imhotep, writes Videoboom.
The Princess Of Ukok
The mummy was found in 1993 on the Ukok plateau. Researchers believe that the burial belonged to the Pazyryk culture of Altai. The burial was embedded in the ice layer, so it is well preserved. In the chamber, in addition to girls, found 6 horses with harness, and the deck in which lay a mummy, has been hammered bronze nails. All of this suggests the nobility of a buried person.
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