What was King Tut like?

John Torrington and the other mummies of the Franklin expedition remain haunting reminders of that lost Arctic voyage of 1845, when sailors cannibalized their fellow crew members in their final, desperate days.

In April 1988, Swiss club owner Gregor Spörri travelled to Egypt armed with a number of books recommended by a friend to learn about ancient Egyptian culture. It was a trip that would change his life forever.

A mummy originating from the Chachapoyas culture has been discovered near the Amazon rainforest in northern Peru. This intriguing mummy, which appears to have been silently screaming for centuries, is believed to date back to a period spanning between 900 and 1500 BC. The excavation site has also yielded many other mummies. These discoveries, including dozens of mummies, are currently on display at the Leymebamba Museum in Peru.

In a fascinating study by scientists in Germany, a 17th-century child mummy has been closely examined using advanced scientific techniques. d historical records. The discoveries …

3,000 years ago he was about 2 metres tall. He was buried wearing a crimson double-breasted tunic and striped trousers. He looks like a Bronze Age European. In fact, he has all the characteristics of a Celt, as evidenced by his DNA. However, this is not an ancient native of central Scotland. That is the man from the mummified body of Cherchen, found in the lonely reaches of the Taklamakan Desert. It is now in a museum in Urumqi, the provincial capital. In the language of the Xinjiang Uighurs, Taklamakan means “one enters not to come out.”

Era políglota, ya que hablaba nueve idiomas, incluido el antiguo egipcio y las lenguas de los partos, hebreos, medos, trogloditas, sirios, etíopes y árabes.

In 1974, an extraordinary event occurred when Ramses II, the renowned Egyptian pharaoh, embarked on a journey to the Louvre Museum in Paris to undertake …

On the tranquil island of Gotlapid, nestled in the middle of the serene Baltic Sea, lies an evocative relic of a bygone era: a skull adorned with remains of medieval chaiпmail. This striking artefact, excavated from a mass grave near the town of Visby, whispers tales of a fierce battle that forever left its mark on the island’s history.

Experts from the Polish Academy of Sciences intend to investigate all mummies in museums within the framework of the Warsaw Mummy Project. As part of …