Unprecedented, the enematic embalming method has maintained this European mummy, which has been preserved for nearly 300 years

When you hear the word mummy, there are possibilities that think about ancient Egypt. However, many different cultures have made it wrong, and scientists have just found merely unexpected issue.

As is detailed in a Ticket The researchers were published today in Frontiers in Medicine, and they analyzed a good mummy from the eighteenth century preserved from a small Austrian village. The individual represents the first documented example of an unknown way previously – strangely – which mainly included pushing different things to a person’s back end. But the most surprising thing is that it seems to have succeeded, allowing researchers to study the mysterious embalming process after centuries.

“The mummy is unusually preserved in the Church of Saint Thomas Mam Plasinstein is (a corpse) in a local diocese deputy, Franz Chevir Seedel von Roseng, who died in 1746,” said Andreas Nerlich, a specialist at Ludig-Makaximilance-unavailable materials, and died in the first author of the study. statement. “Our investigation discovered that the excellent conservation state came from an extraordinary type of embalming, which is achieved through the stomach filler through the rectum canal with wood chips, branches and weaving, and adding zinc chloride to internal drying.”

While the head and the lower ends were in a bad condition, the upper part of the body was completely intact. To study the mummy and identify the individual, the researchers conducted the history of radioactive carbon (tried and truly technique for the history of organic materials), computerized tomography tests (a type of x -ray image), and an autopsy. In the abdominal cavity and pelvis, identify flax fabrics, linen, hemp, as well as a pill, pieces of branches, and wooden spruce.

“It is clear that wood chips, branches and dry fabric absorbed a lot of liquid inside the abdominal cavity,” Nerlich explained. According to the statement, these materials were widely available in that region of Austria. Moreover, researchers found the effects of zinc chloride in the mummy, which also dries materials.

Unlike the embalming process that was widely studied in ancient Egypt – where the priests opened the individual to remove and treat some devices – the body’s entry materials in the body across the rectum is a method of previously not documented embalming. “This type of preservation may be more prevalent, but it is not recognized in cases where continuous decay operations after deaths have been damaged so that the body wall cannot be achieved so that manipulation cannot be achieved as they were.”

The researchers revealed that Sidler von Roseng probably died between 35 and 45 years, at some point between 1734 and 1780, which is compatible with what historians know about the life of the deputy. The results of their analyzes also indicate that some of the potential deficiency of food – on the side of some possible deficiency resulting from the Austrian Caliphate War – lived a very good life. Its bone structure does not carry evidence of great pressure, and it apparently eats a balanced diet of grains, animal products and possibly fish. He was a long -term smoker, and researchers suggest that he suffers from lung disease in his last days.

In the end, the study shows that we still have a lot to learn how past cultures treat their deaths – even those that are newly represented like Austria in the eighteenth century.