#mummified remains

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Ötzi the natural mummy from Chalcolithic Europe is older than Disco Kid!

Lived from between 3350 and 3105 BCE

Image below the cut: TW for mummified human remains

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The mummified body of 2-year-old Edith Howard Cook, who died on Oct. 13, 1876 – six weeks shy of her third birthday. Cause of death: Marasmus (severe malnutrition)

She was found during the remodel of a San Francisco home garage in 2016. The area where the home was built was known to have been part of the Odd Fellows Cemetery, which accepted burials from 1865 until around 1902.

Most of the bodies in the cemetery were exhumed and transferred to Greenlawn in the early 1930s, but Edith was left behind for unknown reasons.

The casket was made of metal, 37 inches long, with two viewing windows in the lid. It was tightly sealed, which helped preserve the girl’s remains.

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Tollund Man

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: Head of bog body Tollund Man. Found near Tollund, Silkebjorg, Denmark, on May 6, 1950. The Tollund Man is a Dane who died 2500 years ago. His body was discovered in 1950 and was so well preserved authorities briefly mistook him as a recent murder victim. The Tollund Man is a naturally mummified…

[pacificremains]

Rooster skull with its comb. The skull was beetle cleaned, degreased, and whitened with peroxide. The sclerotic rings were glued in place. The comb was formalin fixed and dried, then glued in place. A super cool specimen done for a good friend ❤️

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the most accidentally hilarious moment in NATM 3 is as the tablet is dying and Larry is cradling Dexter while the audience has this clear view of Ahkmenrah, a teenager who was murdered thousands of years ago, is very, very, slowly collapsing to the floor as his body reverts to a decayed mummified corpse. And nobody acknowledges it.

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[crowempress]

just know at all hours of the day i am thinking about the little frozen homotherium cub and giving it little kisses on the head and throwing it a birthday party in my mind

[dersitedreamr]

Rose shifting through the artifacts in Jade’s house like “Okay. So we’re going to call the federal government. And figure out how to get these returned to their respective origin countries.” Jade is all sad, Rose is patting her back like “I know this is your tether to your grandpa but he should not have gotten his hands on these in the first place.”

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you buy stuff on Ötzi? like the guy from the alps?

[bbybrownbat]

The mummified corpse of Rosalia Lombardo who died of pneumonia caused by the Spanish Flu just one week shy of her second birthday in 1920.

Her body lays inside a glass topped casket in the catacombs underneath the Capuchin convent in Palermo, Sicily. She is known globally as the “world’s most beautiful mummy”. But locals of this italian city have nicknamed her the “Sleeping Beauty of Palermo.”

The story goes that Rosalia’s father, upon her death, was so stricken with grief, that he sought the aid of a renowned Sicilian professor of preservation; the embalmer and taxidermist Alfredo Salafia. It is said that her father pleaded that he make her “live forever.” And so he did.

Rosalia’s body is so immaculately preserved, that even decades later her organs are still intact. Furthermore, due to the fact that her eyes aren’t fully closed; upon close inspection, her blue irises can be seen. We can thank the arid state of the catacombs in helping keep her body from decomposing but what truly caused her to be seemingly frozen in time was a previously elusive chemical formula created by Professor Salafia.

This specific embalmment fluid consisted of formalin, alcohol, salicylic acid, glycerin and zinc salts. Her body was single-point injected, without any cavity treatment or pre-drainage of bodily fluids.

Formalin, widely used by embalmers, is a mixture of formaldehyde and water which eliminates bacteria. Alcohol dried Rosalia’s body and the glycerin kept it from drying out too much. The salicylic acid prevented the growth of fungi. But it is the zinc salts that really helped retain her perfect state of preservation. Zinc, a chemical no longer used by embalmers, essentially petrified her tiny body.

[jessiesjaded]

I really do want to know what happens when a person dies but they genuinely have no relatives or friends to deal with everything...

[pacificremains]

My $50 yard sale freezer died today. RIP, you served me well for 5 years, through some very hot summers.

Anyone want to buy stuff to help me replace it? These things are all available, and I'll take offers. Message to inquire!

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Author & Timestamp: Sarah Kuta for Smithsonian Magazine, April 30, 2024.

Note: this is an emotive topic and it is not one I feel qualified to give an opinion on yet. My sharing of this extract and link neither supports nor argues against any particular viewpoint, it's simply to take note of a conversation that I feel is important.

Extract:

[T]he Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney [has] removed fragments of mummified bodies from public display. Museum staffers also plan to rename the “Mummy Room” to more accurately and respectfully reflect mummification’s significance in ancient Egyptian culture.

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Egyptologist Melanie Pitkin, [...] a senior curator of antiquities and archaeology [at Chau Chak Wing], is leading the charge to rethink how the museum displays and interprets its Egyptian collection.

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“For hundreds of years, body parts in museum collections have been treated as objects,” says Pitkin in a statement.  “We have become so accustomed to seeing them on show that we often forget they once belonged to living people.”

For now, the remains are being kept in the museum’s “closely monitored collection store” while curators work to “implement better practices with Egyptian communities and authorities,” according to the statement. In the display, the museum replaced the unwrapped body parts with ancient Egyptian funerary portraits from coffin lids and masks. Curators are also exhibiting a painted portrait from the Roman era.

[Two] completely wrapped, mummified bodies [...] along with 3D visualizations based on CT scans of the remains. The CT scan data of another mummified body [...] also remains on view.

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“In renaming the room, we’d like to focus more on the transformation of the body into an eternal being [...], rather than the body itself,” Pitkin says [...]. “We also encourage visitors to critically reflect on the ethical complexities museums face when caring for human remains.”

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“[Modern] cultural stereotyping [of ancient Egyptian mummified bodies] would elsewhere be recognized as a form of racism, but the ancient Egyptians are not here to object to the ways in which we depict them,” Jasmine Day, an Egyptologist [...], tells the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Around the world, curators and policymakers are also reconsidering their approaches to other types of artifacts. Earlier this year, [...] Harvard University removed a book binding made of human skin from its library, while the Field Museum in Chicago covered some of its Native American artifacts.

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[transsweets]

FOSSILS? FOSSILS????? Destroying precious scientific evidence for nail polish? fuck that shit.

good lord