These 13 ancient mummified bodies are a incredible show of the science that went into preserving the dead people many years ago!
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8.
Ginger
The body of this mummified man was found in
Gebelein,
Egypt and scientists have predated him to more than
5,000 years ago during the
Late Predynastic era, near
3400 BC. His hair was golden and perfectly preserved along with his finger and toenails and he’s considered to be the earliest ancient
Egyptian “mummified” body that’s been discovered so far and is on display at the
British Museum.
Fun fact, before the well-known mummification process the
Egyptians developed, they would lay corpses out on the hot sand to absorb the body's water and stop the body from decaying.
7.
Chinchorro Mummies
The ancient Egyptians actually weren’t the first people to purposely mummify their dead.
The South American culture of Chinchorro that is located in
Southern Peru had performed mummifications an astonishing two thousand years before the Egyptians even began. Unlike the Egyptians who only mummified on a hierarchal basis, the Chinchorro preserved everyone including children to miscarried fetuses.
6. The
Krakow Mummy Crypts
Due to an unusual microclimate in the crypts, the bodies that were entombed within the Reformed-Franciscan Monastery and also the next door
Church of St. Casimir in
Krakow, Poland have been mummified naturally without the needs of any preservatives. There's said to be around an incredible amount of bodies here.
Around 300 friars and 730 laymen as an estimate. The latter of which were simply laid out on the floor, without coffins, and their legs covered with sand. One of the ladies buried here was said to have been poisoned by her father on the day of her wedding.
5.
The Mummies of Guanajuato
These bodies were found naturally mummified and were interred in 1833 after there had been a massive outbreak of cholera around the area. However, between the years of 1865 and
1958, the mummies were disinterred because of a law that required the relatives of the deceased to pay taxes in order to keep the bodies in the cemetery. The corpses were then kept inside of a building and began to attract tourists in the
1900s. That building is now known as El Museo De Las Momias,
The Mummies’
Museum.
4.
Saint Bernadette
Her real name was
Maria-Bernada Sobirós and she was born on January 7,
1844, in the town of
Lourdes in
Southern France. She was famously reported to have seen the apparition of a “small young lady” 18 different times from the span of
February 11th ー July
16th, 1858.
Bernadette died on April 16, 1879, and her body that is perfectly intact can be seen in the
Chapel of Saint Bernadette located in
Nevers. She officially made a saint by the
Catholic Church on
December 8th, 1933.
3. The Mummies Of
Pompeii
When
Mount Vesuvius erupted in
79 A.D. it was then that people of Pompeii were frozen in time and encased in a layer of volcanic ash and have been preserved by the same tragedy that stole their lives almost 2,
000 years ago. After the volcano’s eruption, the city was then buried by a landslide that caused massive amounts of mud and debris to swallow the entire town. This combination is what led to the body’s of the victims to be perfectly preserved for so many centuries and give us an insight as to how these people lived their lives.
2.
Rosalia Lombardo
This little girl was a week from turning two when she was taken by a case of pneumonia on
December 6th,
1920. Rosalia was born in
Palermo, Sicily where her body rests in the
Capuchin catacombs as one of the last bodies that the catacombs would allow to rest inside. Her heartbroken father was the one who made the decision to have her embalmed and went to Dr.
Alfredo Salafia, who was a well-known embalmer and taxidermist, to have the procedure done. Her body was so well preserved that she was given the nickname “
Sleeping Beauty” because it looks as if she were asleep.
1.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Born on
April 10th 1870,
Lenin was considered as one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the
20th century and would later become the first head of the
USSR. He barely survived an assassination attempt in
1918 that left him critically wounded and would later affect his long-term health. After suffering from three different strokes he died on
January 21st, 1924, he was then embalmed and put on display in the
Lenin Mausoleum in
Moscow to this day.
- published: 06 Jul 2016
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