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People got mugged for their Adidas gear back then. Blimey.Ancient Mummy with snazzy shoes found after 1100 years
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Four or five posts up Ramon ...1,100-Year-Old Mummified Remains Found With Fantastic Footwear
POSTED ONAPRIL 25, 2017HISTORY 2935
When archaeologists in Mongolia stumbled across the remains of a 1,100-year-old mummy, they were surprised to that the corpse was still wearing footwear that was in remarkable condition.
However, a full restoration of the mummy was still needed to get a closer look, so the remains were sent to the Centre of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia.
After a full restoration, researchers were baffled to see that the footwear still had plenty of colour and a rather similar design to modern footwear – various stripes, just like Adidas!
These aren’t the earliest designs for Adidas sneakers of course, but they did turn to be knee-high boots made from felt and leather, with an eye-catching red and black stripped pattern.
“With these stripes, when the find was made public, they were dubbed as similar to Adidas shoes with the three stripes,” explains Galbadrakh Enkhbat, director of the Centre of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia.
“In this sense, they are an interesting object of study for ethnographers, especially so when the style is very modern.”
Researchers also unearthed more about the mummified remains, which turned out to be a Turkic female seamstress, and it’s believed the she died somewhere in the Altai mountains of Mongolia due to head trauma, due to huge wound present on her skull. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/oldest-human-mummy-found-portugalWorld's oldest mummy found in Portugal
Roughly 60 years ago, an archaeologist snapped photos of several skeletons buried in 8,000-year-old graves in southern Portugal. Now, a new analysis of these previously undeveloped photos suggests that the oldest human mummies don't hail from Egypt or even Chile, but rather Europe.
More than a dozen ancient bodies were found in Portugal's southern Sado Valley during excavations in the 1960s, and at least one of those bodies had been mummified, possibly to make it easier to transport before its burial, researchers said after analyzing the images and visiting the burial grounds.
And there are signs that other bodies buried at the site may have also been mummified, which suggests that the practice could have been widespread in this region at this time.
Elaborate procedures of mummification were used in ancient Egypt more than 4,500 years ago, and evidence of mummification has been found elsewhere in Europe, dating from about 1000 B.C. But the newly identified mummy in Portugal is the oldest ever found and predates the previous record holders — mummies in the coastal region of Chile's Atacama Desert — by about 1,000 years. ...
Archaeologist Michael Parker Pearson of University College London, who wasn't part of the Sado Valley research, said his team had developed these techniques to identify mummification in prehistoric skeletons almost 20 years ago: "So it is very exciting to see the practice recognized elsewhere in Europe," he said.
Parker Pearson's team had found evidence for mummification in skeletons from an island in Scotland that were about 3,000 years old; and while the mummified skeleton from the Sado Valley was much older, it might not stay the oldest-known for long ...
Suggestions of 10,000-year-old mummifications had been found at El Wad and Ain Mallaha in Israel, and there were signs of mummifications 30,000 years ago at Kosteni in Belarus. "These sites are just crying out for the type of analysis carried out in this new study," he said.
FULL STORY (With Photo): https://www.sciencealert.com/mummified-baby-from-centuries-ago-may-have-died-from-lack-of-sunlightMummified Baby From Centuries Ago May Have Died From Lack of Sunlight
For centuries, the crypt of one of the oldest aristocratic families in Austria has preserved a tragic secret. A boy, perhaps no older than a year or two in age, who died not from a lack of food, or injury. But for a simple want of sunlight on his skin.
The male child was found mummified in a family crypt reserved for the Counts of Starhemberg, having been interred there somewhere between the middle of the 16th and 17th centuries. His tiny features are withered but detailed, his body still wrapped in an elaborate silk garment.
Yet, in spite of living a life of privilege, his short existence was clearly not a healthy one.
A virtual autopsy of the corpse using CT scans has revealed malformations to the ribs that resemble classical signs of malnutrition, specifically vitamin D deficiency. Known as rickets, this condition tends to result in a bowing of the legs, a feature that wasn't evident in the boy's bones.
Keeping an open mind, the researchers considered a second possibility – low amounts of vitamin C, resulting in scurvy. ...
Fat tissue analysis revealed the 10- to 18-month-year-old was overweight for his age, at least compared to other infants of the time. As a result, researchers suspect the child was well-fed in his patrician life, making vitamin C deficiency less likely.
Vitamin D, on the other hand, isn't absorbed from our food in significant amounts, but rather produced in the skin through chemical reactions that depend on ultraviolet (UV) radiation, suggesting the child was severely undernourished not for want of food, but by lack of sunlight. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.sciencealert.com/random...ecoming-mummies-and-its-become-a-real-problemRandom Corpses in Portugal Are Becoming Mummies, And It's Become a Real Problem
A spate of human bodies mysteriously not decomposing after burial is causing a crisis in Portugal, where bodies have been observed naturally mummifying after being buried.
Under local laws implemented to save space, bodies need to be routinely exhumed so that skeletal remains can be laid to rest in smaller containers.
But many just don't decompose, causing trauma for families whose loved ones are repeatedly unearthed only to be put back to continue decaying.
A fundamental problem is that nobody really knows what happens to bodies buried in coffins.
Scientists in Portugal are now working to uncover the cause of the strange mummifications. ...