Little-Known Mummy Fragments Analyzed By Scientists
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany have carried out the first comprehensive analysis of some 20 mummy fragments from collections in the University’s archives and have presented their findings in Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology. The items examined by the researchers in the archaeology of prehistory and […]
Scientific ‘Detective Work’ With South American Mummies Reveals They Were Brutally Murdered
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – How frequent was violence in prehistoric human societies? One way to measure this is to look for trauma in prehistoric human remains. For example, a recent review of pre-Columbian remains found evidence of trauma from violence in 21% of males. So far, most studies of this kind have focused on […]
Mystery Of The Tarim Basin Mummies Continues
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As part of the Silk Road and located at the geographical intersection of Eastern and Western cultures, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long served as a major crossroads for trans-Eurasian exchanges of people, cultures, agriculture, and languages. Since the late 1990s, the discovery of hundreds of naturally mummified human […]