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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4091998/Is-love-child-pharoah-Egyptian-mummy-thought-dead-bird-turns-miscarried-baby.html
Posted on 01/07/2017 5:36:23 PM PST by ETL
Experts in the U.K. were stunned recently when a tiny Egyptian mummy, long thought to be the remains of a hawk, was revealed to be a human baby.
The ancient mummy, which is part of the Maidstone Museum’s collection, underwent a Computerized Tomography (CT) scan at the Kent Institute of Medicine and Surgery (KIMS).
“Following the scans at KIMS Hospital, the remains were in fact revealed to be the mummy of a baby,” said Samantha Harris, the Collections Manager at Maidstone Museum, in a statement. “Initial reviews identified the baby to be a miscarried c.20-week gestation foetus which, if found to be the case, will be one of the youngest human mummies recorded anywhere in the world.”
The CT scan gave experts the opportunity to study the mummy, which could be 2,300 years old, without damaging it. “Without access to the technology, identifying and learning about the baby mummy would’ve been impossible without causing irreversible damage from unwrapping,” said Harris.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4091998/Is-love-child-pharoah-Egyptian-mummy-thought-dead-bird-turns-miscarried-baby.html
Couldn't help myself.
Mummy Juanita:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_Juanita
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LIMA, Peru - A top Peruvian anthropologist said Friday that President Clinton's joke about the sex appeal of an Inca mummy was "tacky" and criticized the display of the mummy in Washington.
Clinton joked during a political fund-raiser Wednesday that the 500-year-old frozen mummy, known as the Ice Princess, was "good-looking" and if he were single he might ask her out. "That mummy looks better than I do on my worst days," he said.
Anthropologist Sonia Guillen said, "Obviously, there's a lack of respect" in Clinton's remarks.
"Called Juanita by Peruvian scientists, the 12 to 14-year-old girl apparently was killed by a powerful blow to the head 500 years ago and sacrificed to the gods atop 20,000-foot-high Mt. Ampato."
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-05-25/news/mn-8167_1_inca-mummy
Well, after all - every baby has a mummy.
So many things Clinton did and said, any one of which would have hounded a republican out of public life.
Especially considering this...
"Called Juanita by Peruvian scientists, the 12 to 14-year-old girl apparently was killed by a powerful blow to the head 500 years ago and sacrificed to the gods atop 20,000-foot-high Mt. Ampato."
20 week foetus? Didn’t those Egyptians know what a foetus really is? How civilized we now are :)
“Tiny mummies...” (Sung to the tune of “Tiny Bubbles”).
So an unborn child was considered a real person and required a formal funeral?
I guess ancient Egypt had a more advanced civilization than we do...
Bookmark Clintons pizza mummy
Is that a tamale?
Yeah but you do not expect a child that young would be a mummy already. But then again we are talking about Muslim societies. 8>)
A big tamale, aged to perfection.
Mummies make the world go around, the world go around, the world go around.
Well, who knows - given enough time, maybe the mummy would have been a daddy.
Even then they had the respect to bury a 20 week “baby”, not fetus.
Way back in my younger days that would be a Friday night party bone.
“So an unborn child was considered a real person and required a formal funeral?
Only because the mother wanted it and did not consider it an inconvenience. Otherwise it is just cells
“I guess ancient Egypt had a more advanced civilization than we do...”
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