When you hear the word mummy, there is a possibility that you think of ancient Egypt. Many different cultures surrounded their deceased, however, and scientists have specially found. Unexpected Case.
Elaborate in one Study Published in Journal Frontiers in Medicine today, researchers analyzed a well -protected 18th -century mummy from a small Austrian village. The individual represents the first documented example of the unknown -and clearly strange -to -euphemism method, which essentially included shaking different things in the back of the person. But it is more surprising that it seems to work, allowing researchers to study the mysterious mammification process after centuries.
The church crypt of St. Thomas M Blassenstein has an unusually well protected mummy a local parish wicker, the body of Franz Xver Sideller Von Rosenagg, who died in 1746, “said Andreas Nerlich, Ludwig-Maximilans—univitate and Fresh Authentictive. statement“Our investigation revealed that the state of excellent protection came from an unusual type of emballing, which was obtained by filling the abdomen through the rectal canal in addition to wood chips, twigs and zinc chloride for cloth and inner drying.”
While the head and lower ends were in poor position, the upper body of the wicker was completely intact. To study mummy and identify the individual, researchers conducted radioacarbon dating (an attempt-and-rich technique for organic content), CT scan (a type of X-ray image), and a corpse. In the stomach and pelvic cavity, they identified linen, flax and hemp clothes, as well as a bead, branches, and cedar and spruce wooden chips.
“Clearly, wooden chips, twigs, and dried fabric absorbed the fluid inside the abdominal cavity,” Neralich explained. According to the statement, these were widely available materials in that region of Austria. In addition, the researchers found marks of zinc chloride in the mummy, which also dries up the material.
In contrast to the widely studied mammification process in ancient Egypt – where the priests cut the person to remove and treat some organs – inserting the material in the body through the rectum is an already unintended emballing method. “This type of protection can be very widespread, but may be unfamiliar in cases where the ongoing postmortal decay processes may have damaged the body wall so that manipulation cannot be felt.”
Researchers revealed that Sideller von Rosaneg’s probability died between the ages of 35 and 45, some time between 1734 and 1780, which matches historians who know about the life of wicker. The results of their analysis also indicate that – in addition to some possible food due to the war of Austrian succession – Syldler von Rosaneg lived a very good life. Their skeleton does not provide evidence of significant stress, and they ate a balanced diet of grains, animal products and perhaps a fish. However, he was a long -term smoking, and researchers suggested that he was suffering from lung tuberculosis in his last days.
Ultimately, the study shows that we still have a lot of how previous cultures have treated their dead – even recently as the 18th century Austria.
