Tag: mummy

• Ancient Egyptian Hawk Mummy Mystery | Baby History Shorts

  

  In 2016, as part of Maidstone Museum’s Ancient Lives project, their mummified collections, comprised mostly of animals, were CT scanned. Shockingly, EA 493 Mummified Hawk (Ptolemaic Period, 300bce) didn’t contain a hawk, it contained a human.  Inside of a small cartonnage, painted with a gilt hawk face and wings, but human feet in sandals, and…

  Aradia Wyndham

  August 24, 2023

  Babies, Pregnancy, Video

  Ancient Egypt, anencephaly, Egypt, Falcon, fetal, Hawk, history, Horus, miscarriage, mummies, mummy, pregnancy loss, Ptolomy, Saqqara

• The Atacama Mummy

  

  In 2003, in La Noria, a deserted mining town in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Oscar Muñoz found mummified remains in a leather bag, humanoid in appearance but only 15 cm (6 in) tall. It was a mystery. Scientists were confused by the skeleton’s apparent advanced age (developmental maturity) despite its tiny stature. Paranormal proponents believed it…

  Aradia Wyndham

  May 11, 2022

  Pregnancy

  1970s, alien, Atacama Desert, Chile, Congenital, fetal, genetics, genome, mining, miscarriage, mummy, pregnancy loss, pseudoscience, teratogen