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Adipocere was first described by Sir Thomas Browne in his discourse Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658): [3]. In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castile-soap: wherof part remaineth with us.
Ca. 37,000-year-old cub of Homotherium latidens found near the Badyarikha River, Siberia. This is a list of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies. It includes all known species that have had their tissues partially preserved within the permafrost layer of the Arctic and Subarctic.
Three of the bodies were found with coverings of different types (reed matting, palm fibre and animal skin), which still remain with the bodies. The bodies were found in fetal positions lying on their left sides. Since 1901, the first body excavated (EA 32751, nicknamed "Ginger" for his red hair) has remained on display in the British Museum.
The remains contain the head and the anterior part of the body preserved to the edge of the chest. The mummy's head was especially well-preserved, and the forelimbs of the mummy were preserved ...
Analysis of the mummy revealed the official lived to be 65 years old, much older than expected during that time period. The mastaba was discovered between Abusir and Saqqara, pyramid fields south ...
The mummies were found buried in upside-down boats with hundreds of 13-foot-long wooden poles in the place of tombstones. [56] DNA sequence data [57] shows that the mummies had Haplogroup R1a (Y-DNA) characteristic of western Eurasia in the area of East-Central Europe, Central Asia and the Indus Valley. [58]
Investigations were performed as carefully as possible; the four best-preserved mummies were neither derobed nor opened. Intense conservation measures were also avoided. The numbering of the mummies follows the classifications of the initial investigators: specifically, the corpses were divided by graves and numbered from top to bottom.
The researchers found that the mummy was still in a good condition even 3,500 years after its burial. ... her organs and even her teeth were remarkably well preserved, allowing researchers to ...