Tuesday 11 September 2007

Preservation Of The Species

These two examples of mummified humans have turned up on the internet this week. The first is a man found in a mining tunnel in Western Iran in 1993. He's carbon dated at 1700 years old. He appears to be a high ranking gentleman and has a wound to his head but no-one knows who he is or how he got there.


The second is a young Inca girl found in 1999. She was 15 years old when she died.












1 comment:

Anonymous said...

for some reason this leaves me with an overwhelming feeling of sadness
chris