3.3.2003 The oldest European mummy

Categories: Calendar , Nálezy nejenom s detektorem ve Velké Británii a Irsku

Four mummies were discovered by archaeologists on the British island of South Uist. According to experts, they are three thousand years old. The remains belong to a three-year-old girl, a teenage girl, a man and a woman.

South Uist is an island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. More than 1700 inhabitants live here. The main office is the port of Lochboisdale. The remains were in a layer from the Bronze Age. Experts claimed that the discovery of mummies would change the overall view of burial at the time. The then inhabitants of the island were said to bury the dead in a similar way and at the same time as the ancient Egyptians.

Experts also performed an analysis of mummies. They wanted to research what was used to preserve corpses. Researchers have also used dating with radioactive carbon. They found that the conservation took place with the help of peat and acids, which occur in the wild.

"These are the only prehistoric mummies found in this country," said Mike Parker-Pearson, an expert on burial methods in antiquity from the University of Sheffield.

Until now, experts did believe that mummification took place only in ancient Egypt and South America. They had to reconsider this view. Unlike the Egyptian mummies, they were exposed to much worse weather on the island of South Uist. Especially incomparably higher humidity. The weather was gloomy as it is today. "As a result, the bandages that wrapped the mummies fell apart," Parker-Pearson said.

The mummies have knees up to the chest, because their legs are crouched. "They probably had their legs tied with strings or strapped, otherwise they wouldn't last in that position. The fabric, like the bandages, has disintegrated over time, ”thinks Parker-Pearson.

Archaeologists came across mummies while examining the remains of Cladh Hallan on South Uist Island. The first to find a couple - a man and a woman. Their bodies were in the foundations of one of the houses, but they were not buried immediately after death.

Experts then found out what they were doing to the dead man. "It simply came to our notice then. Namely, that they let the couple dry up in the wind, or is said to be drying over the fire. Another variant is that the bodies were loaded in salt or submerged in a peat bog for a while, "Parker-Pearson explained.

Based on a thorough analysis, the scientists later found that the dead were soaked in peat water. "It simply came to our notice then. Calmly a year before the bodies were bandaged, "concluded an expert on burial methods in antiquity from the University of Sheffield.

Sources: www.scotsman.com, www.bbc.com, www.telegraph.co.uk

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Já teda nevim ale :Mumie je mrtvé tělo člověka nebo zvířete, které bylo zachováno buď přirozeně (mrazem, vysušením pískem apod.) nebo uměle (balzamováním). K náhodné mumifikaci dochází, pokud se mrtvé tělo nachází ve vhodných přírodních podmínkách. Řada lidských kultur vyvinula chemický proces balzamování, při kterém se dosahovalo stejného výsledku. Obvykle se tak dělo z náboženských důvodů. Hmotnost dospělého člověka se při úplné mumifikaci změní na 5 až 7 kilogramů.[

A ten nadpis taky nesouhlasí, a co třeba ECI ten je mnohem starší jak tyto kostry a ECI je na rozdíl od těchto opravdu mumie.

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