Posted on 07/26/2024 9:14:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...The team made the 'unprecedented' find after unsealing the 2,000-year-old sarcophagus in the historic 'Tomb of Cerberus' in Naples.
The remains had been preserved by plant-based creams that were applied on the bodies prior to being sealed in the chamber...
One of the bodies was found covered in a shroud, surrounded by grave goods, which the team unwrapped and found the individual was perfectly preserved.
The particular care given to the deceased and the chronology of the objects found suggested that he may have been the founder of the family for whom the mausoleum was built...
Archaeologists have previously found a large number of burial sites in the same area, which date from the Roman Republic era (510 BC to 31 BC) to the Roman Imperial Age (31 BC to AD 476)...
The remains had been lathered with cream made from chenopodium, a genus of perennial herb colloquially known as goosefoot, and absinthium (wormwood).
The combination has been found on remains in the past, including the body of a 17th-century bishop found beneath a cathedral in Sweden.
The mummy that has been unwrapped, however, was covered in a shroud that experts believe mineralized due to the climate conditions inside the chamber...
The burial chamber was discovered after archaeologists spotted a wall built using an ancient Roman construction technique known as opus incertum.
The method used irregularly shaped and randomly placed uncut stones, which emerged around in the second century BC.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The roughly 2,000-year-old ancient sarcophagus, located in Naples in southern Italy, was first probed with a micro-camera in order to assess if breaking the seal might harm the precious artifacts and remains it contains (pictured above) by exposing them to the air© Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape
Thanks for the link!
*Deadpan, sarcastic voice of Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones character begins*
“Researchers plan to share images of the newly found mummies at a later date.”
That will be interesting if I ever see them.
Why do they wait so long to show pictures? Let’s see it before anyone can manipulate what they finally show us. I’ve become a skeptic as to why they withhold information from the people?
*Deadpan, sarcastic voice of Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones character begins*
“Mummies! Why did it have to be Mummies!”
Rubbing myself with goosefoot and wormwood.
‘In recent months, in fact, laboratory analyses conducted on samples taken from the inhumations and the depositional beds have returned a considerable amount of data on the treatment of the deceased’s body and the funerary ritual carried out, significantly enriching the panorama of our knowledge.’
Wow...Thats some gimme some grant money talk right there.
Somebody tell Kameltoe she has a long lost relative in Naples...
Junk science without pictures.
I bet you a dollar that, if this shroud is even viewable, that there is no image of the person on it. Just one more of thousands of shrouds that have been found that have no image like the Shroud of Turin....
Next thing we know, someone will try to bring the “perfectly preserved remains” back to life so he can tell us exactly what happened.
“Archaeologists make ‘unprecedented’ discovery after unsealing a 2,000-year-old tomb’
They found the body of Nancy Pelosi’s twin sister?
If they can get grant money for it!
How are these archeologists anything more than graverobbers?
I wonder if the reporter knows that “opus incertum” is “uncertain work?”
I was thinking “Hannah, Queen of the Vampires.”
Yeah, it fell right over. /s
Gotta sign a release........
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