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0ldgrumpy1 t1_iwnxhqc wrote

Reply to comment by IslandChillin in Hundreds of mummies and pyramid of an unknown queen unearthed near King Tut's tomb by IslandChillin

Yeah, but they lost me with..
"the New Kingdom period lasted from the sixth century B.C. to the 11th century B.C."

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big_duo3674 t1_iwny3ky wrote

Time traveling mummies are actually a square on my apocalypse bingo card

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UnicornHorn1987 t1_iwo7gem wrote

I recently read about a 2,000-year-old chinese mummy preserved in an acidic solvent. Her skin and hair fully intact. Her limbs still supple. Blood in her veins appeared to be in well preserved condition. You can see the mummy here.

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simloi t1_iwohv89 wrote

>They also assume that melons were the last item she consumed before she passed away since her corpse was so perfectly preserved.

I almost dismissed this article when I thought they were talking about melon's magic powers of preserving mummies. They can't be saying that, right? The body was so well preserved that the remains in her stomach look like melons. Right...?

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corkscream t1_iwoipl4 wrote

Yeah weird wording on their part but they mean that she was so well preserved they can tell what she last ate by the contents of her stomach

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2fhqwhgads1cup t1_iwo8s4s wrote

Kinda wish it was the brett favre meme instead. Thats kinda gross looking.

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zorokash t1_iwpinit wrote

The article did say the mummy was instantly deteriorating when opened and current images was taken a lot later and doesn't do justice to how well she looked immediately after opening. Sad that we dont have a reference to it.

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AsassinX t1_iwpdxk1 wrote

Incredible. This made me sad to read though: >“When Xin Zhui’s preserved body was discovered, it was instantly compromised, and her body began to deteriorate. As a result, the photos we see now don’t do justice to the first finding.”

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Griffin_da_Great t1_iwpjezw wrote

Just makes me wonder why archeologists don't just leave these mummies where they lie? They were doing good for thousands of years! Why compromise the integrity of the specimen?! Or, if you're feeling ethical, the wishes of the long dead?

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DHFranklin t1_iwpxjr6 wrote

Because that isn't what archeology is for.

Archeology is the study of past human behavior through artifacts. If we leave those artifacts including anthropological ones where they are we can't study them. We can't learn from them and us.

That doesn't mean you can't put it all back when everything is recorded. However, that's your answer.

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redness88 t1_iwq0zek wrote

Archeology is destructive. You usually only get one shot at it. I mean. Did you read on how they "found" the city of Troy?

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DerWaechter_ t1_iwqb2rt wrote

It used to be destructive in the early days, because it was essentially just a way of committing "totally not grave robbery"

Modern day archeology is extremely conscious about the potential to destroy uncovered pieces, and will handle them with care. The priority is to not destroy things in the process

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DHFranklin t1_iwqrnz6 wrote

Any time you go to a museum and learn something from the artifacts, you yourself are doing archeology.

I think we would all agree that the cool roman mosaics and other art buried under long forgotten farm houses need to be excavated.

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IgotCHUbits t1_iwpvjac wrote

Because it might have been full of gold…. We had to check, for science.

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corkscream t1_iwoimiz wrote

That’s so sad that she started to deteriorate when it was opened. Imagine being in disturbed for 2000 years looking gorgeous and all of the sudden some Europeans pop you open ahaha

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maceilean t1_iwp09ux wrote

What makes you think it was European archaeologists?

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Ender_Keys t1_iwputav wrote

It was Chinese archeologists and high school students

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p00pdal00p t1_iwq04nj wrote

The coconut that they have on a line between them.

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DramaOnDisplay t1_iwpf2d2 wrote

Well that’s definitely a way to find yourself cursed by a mummy lmao!

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harmboi t1_iwoyb03 wrote

they should clone her

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[deleted] t1_iwp8p6p wrote

Imagine that conversation when the clone is old enough to understand lol "Yeah youre a scientific reanimation of some lady who was alive 2000 years ago haha"

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Initial_E t1_iwpc7z2 wrote

> "There's a time, Leto, a time when you're alive. A time when you're supposed to be alive. It can have a magic, that time, while you're living it. You know you're never going to see a time like that again." Leto blinked, touched by the Duncan's distress. The words were evocative. Idaho raised both hands, palms up, to chest-height, a beggar Asking for something he knew he could not receive.

>"Then . . . one day you wake up and you remember dying . . . and you remember the axlotl tank . . . and the Tleilaxu nastiness which awakened you . . . and it's supposed to start all over again. But it doesn't. It never does, Leto.”

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Comprehensive-Ad-172 t1_iwpn30v wrote

I know the guy that directed the new Dune only had plans to get to the second book but my good imagine if this book ever got adapted

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hand_truck t1_iwnyrtx wrote

This comment made me deader than the mummies, thanks for the laugh.

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pancarte t1_iwotsfr wrote

As long as Brendan Fraser is alive you don't have to worry about the mummies.

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