In 2011, Anatoly Moskvin was apprehended in Russia when 26 dolls found in his home were revealed to be deceased little girls he had exhumed, mummified, and dressed up.
A whole baby woolly mammoth was found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada - the first such discovery in N. America. The mummified ice age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old.
In 1980, when a group of loggers were cutting off the top of a chestnut oat tree, they noticed the mummified remains of a hunting dog. Experts believe that it chased its prey up the tree in the 1960s, only to get stuck and eventually die.
In 1998, archaeologists uncovered an ancient Korean tomb containing the mummified body of a 30-year-old man named Eung-Tae Lee. On his chest was a love letter from his pregnant wife to the father of her unborn child. The translation of the letter is as follows:
A mummified giant finger was found in Egypt in 1988 by Gregor Spörri. The finger was said to be 15 inches long (about 38 centimeters) and it is estimated that the finger would have had to come off of something about 16 feet tall. Some believe it is evidence of an ancient race of
Artificial intelligence reconstruction of Ramses Il (1,303 - 1,213 BC) based on the photos of his mummified remains.
The mummified head of Ramses II was forensically examined by Professor Pierre-Fernand Ceccaldi (chief forensic scientist at the Criminal Identification Laboratory
Officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato, the oldest living man in Tokyo, on his 111th birthday. Upon arriving to his house, a mummified body wearing underwear and pajamas was lying in his bed. He had been dead for 30 years but his family kept the secret to keep receiving his
Blue Babe is a 50,000-year-old mummified steppe bison that was discovered by gold miners in 1979, north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Claw and tooth marks on the rear of the bison indicate that it was killed by a North American lion, an extinct Ice Age cat that was 25% larger than the
An amazing discovery: a near complete, mummified baby woolly #mammoth was found in the Klondike gold fields within Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Traditional Territory.
At over 2,000 years old, Xin Zhui, also known as 'Lady Dai', is a mummified woman of China’s Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) who still has her own hair, is soft to the touch, and has ligaments that still bend, like a living person. She's widely recognized as the best-preserved human
Update: Switch patch for the blue floor bug and zoom/tile offset issue is in the approval process, and will be out as soon as possible. There will also be another round of patches on all consoles for a few other bugs, including the shaking stones and the mummified bat issue
Mummified remains of 2 year-old Rosalie Lombardo rest in Crypt of Capuchins in Palermo, Italy. She died of Spanish flu in 1920, but her body is remarkably well preserved. It is truly amazing how well-preserved her mummified remains are, especially considering passage of time.
Scientists use modern reference specimens to identify bone, shell & plant material from archaeological sites. 🎧 With zooarchaeologist Irv Quitmyer: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/obje…
Two alleged 1,000 year-old ‘alien corpses’ have been presented to Mexican Congress by journalist Jaime Maussan.
He testified under oath that the mummified specimens, which were found in Peru, are not part of “our terrestrial evolution” with a third of their DNA being “unknown.”