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Today I’m going to be talking about a very important topic we’ve all been wondering about.
Weird mummy poses. I mean, they can’t all be perfectly positioned, right? Stick around to
the end and find the.. Well.. I guess
we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Here are the Top 10 Weirdest Mummy Poses!
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mummified in! 10. The Hand
This tiny little hand was found in Hungary in an ancient graveyard in the village of Nyalorinc.
It was a hand mummified just on its own, no body, and when researchers tried to find out why,
they tested the remains and found... a lot of copper? I mean, his levels were
absolutely extraordinary! The source of both the copper and the mummification that spread
only to the infant’s forearm was a coin that had been placed in their hand at some point.
That’s when scientists found out that this was not just a new way to mummify, but also a tradition in
the Catholic church to bury a child who had not been baptized at the time of their death with
a coin to pay St. John the Baptist so that they could still go to Heaven. Heart-breaking, right?
9. Groupies The Capuchin Catacombs are full of mummies
for people to see. They’re not the best-preserved mummies, but impressive nonetheless! Researchers
even call them “Club Dead”, like they’re groupies of this super exclusive burial place
where only the elite were laid to rest. Except, they weren’t laid at all. Whoever was in charge
placed them in upright positions, sometimes even hung up on the walls! Their clothes were left
on and they were separated by certain criteria, like gender, age, and even careers! For instance,
all the lawyers were buried together, as were the doctors. In the “nursery”, children were placed
in cribs. These bodies weren’t just left there either, monks were in charge of tending to them,
paid by their relatives to even change their clothes! There’s not much left of these mummies
but they’re still a really eerie sight. 8. Vampires
This next one isn't actually a mummy, but still incredibly interesting because these human remains
are linked to a time when the belief in vampires was a lot more rampant.
The skeletons found in Bulgaria are about 200 years old and researchers that work on them
see that they all show signs of being pinned down through their chest with iron rods.
Now, this doesn't mean that these people died as a result of being hunted as vampires in their life.
It actually means that these people believed that dead corpses could turn into vampires,
and this was their solution to preventing that from happening.
7. The Lima Mummies Researchers find mummies
all over the world, not just in Egypt like children's cartoons will have us believe. In fact,
researchers have found a group of strange-looking mummies in Lima, Peru, that date back to 1000 AD,
some with their long hair still present. The skeletons are of three adult women and one man
and were found in a residential neighborhood in the city of Lima. According to researchers,
they’re part of a civilization in 1080 AD that had the tradition of wrapping their
corpses and mummifying them. This came to an end, as did the preservation of these mummies,
when the Spanish conquerors came and looted and destroyed the graves. Researchers think
this could explain why there's not a whole lot of objects among the mummies.
6. French Hearts
I guess to be a country deemed internationally as the most romantic in the world, you have to
get it wrong sometimes. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, France took things
a little too extreme. Back in that time, they considered it really romantic to be buried with
the heart of your husband or wife. At least that's what we know from the 2015 uncovering
that happened in France under a convent. One of these corpses belonging to Lady Louise de Quengo,
deceased in 1656, showed the tradition in full force. Inside her coffin, among her remains,
was a lead urn shaped like a heart containing the real mummified heart of her husband.
5. European Autopsy Even though some people in the Middle Ages
were experimenting during autopsies and dissection of human corpses, they were certainly not the
amateurs that modern scientists thought they were. Back in 2013, researchers found the partial mummy
which was the result of Europe's oldest preserved human autopsy. Scientists thought it was mummified
somewhere between 1400 and 1500 AD, but further analysis dated it between 1200 and 1280 AD. The
techniques that were used to mummify this corpse were very advanced. The handler used lime,
beeswax, and red cinnabar mercury. After the concoction was made, it was injected into the
corpse to preserve the body and add color to the circulatory system. To add, the back of the
skull and the brain were removed. 4. The Copper-masked Mummies
Sixteen years ago, researchers found remains at Zeleniy Yar that sparked a lot of questions that
weren't answered for a long time. They were masked mummies buried in shallow graves in Siberia.
Among them were bronze bowls from Persia from the 11th century. Even stranger yet,
their skulls were smashed. Scientists think that it was a mix between the cold weather
and the copper on their faces that prevented the oxidation of their bones. This would explain why
the mummies are holding Persian bowls, despite the fact that they were thousands of kilometers away.
They were also in possession of an iron combat knife, hatchet of the same material, silver
medallion, and a bronze bird figurine. Researchers think the skull smashing could be due to a
tradition believed to protect living people from mysterious spells that would emanate from corpses.
3. The Buddha Statue This one is particularly surprising
because it was just so unexpected. Scientists found, inside of the Chinese Buddha statue,
the mummified remains of a monk who lived more than a thousand years ago. They believe the
mummy may have been a respected Buddhist monk who continued to be worshiped after his death
as an enlightened one. What's crazy, is scientists had no idea this even existed until years ago when
preservationists started restoring the statue and realized there was a human body inside.
2. Rosalia Lombardo Rosalia was an Italian girl who died
of pneumonia in 1920 as a result of the Spanish flu, which originated in - of all places - Kansas.
Her father was so hurt by her death that he approached an embalmer named Alfredo Salafia
to preserve her. Salafia took on the challenge and little Rosalia became a mummified Sleeping
Beauty. She was one of the last corpses admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.
Photos of the little girl embalmed to this day give us a clue as to why her father
had such a hard time saying goodbye. 1. The Masturbating Man of Pompeii?
The Pompeii Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. left plenty of people in weird positions they
might not have posed in for a photo. They all were incredibly preserved under ash, dust, and debris
expelled by the volcano. One of those ways was the man who was found.. privately "discovering"
himself. At least that’s what it looks like. The image was so easy to interpret as a man
masturbating that the image went viral on Facebook and Twitter, and still gets shared to this day.
Unfortunately, it seems like he was not actually disappointing his mom, but instead has both arms
and legs flexed because of the heat. It was an effect on the Pompeii citizens’ bodies postmortem.
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