The
Mummies’ Medical Secrets? They’re Perfectly Preserved
Mummified
bodies in a crypt in Lithuania are teaching scientists about health
and disease among people who lived long ago.
Mummified
bodies in a crypt in Lithuania 173=40p Falsehood, Fantasy,
Conjure, Deceitful (547=101p=26p Lie) (FB 740=74
Masonic, Jesus) (S 1561/7=223=48p
Hoax) (E 2423=360p=36 Mockery) (J 1613=255p/5=51
Dishonesty, Conspiracy, Freemason)
Hundreds
of skeletons have lain scattered around a crypt beneath a church in
Vilnius, Lithuania, for centuries. But 23 of these remains are unlike
the rest: Flesh wraps their bones, clothes cover their skin, and or
gans still fill their insides.
Hundreds
of skeletons have lain scattered around a crypt beneath a church in
Vilnius, Lithuania 403=43 Fairy Tale (898/2=449=87p Misguide,
Fixed) (F 976/16=61=18p Faked) (E 6127/11=557=102p
Farce, Made Up) (J5057/13=389=77p Damn
Lies)
But
Two Three(23) of these remains are unlike the rest 190=19
Bogus (226/2=113 Mainstream, Dishonest,
Fiction) (505/5=101=26p Lie) (Su 3030=33
Phony, Laughable)
They
are mummies, and since they were recovered about five years ago,
scientists have investigated their secrets, seeking insights into the
lives of people in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and
the diseases they suffered. “They are so well preserved that they
almost look alive,” said Dario Piombino-Mascali, an anthropologist
from Italy who has studied the mummies since 2011. Recently, Dr.
Piombino-Mascali and his colleagues have uncovered remnants of the
smallpox virus in one of the mummies, gaining new insights into the
origins of a deadly scourge that killed an estimated 300
million
people in the 20th century alone.
They
are so well preserved that they almost look alive 227=49p
Purposeful, Chicanery (241=53p Connivance, Falseness) (569=104p
Conjurer, Not Real)
Dario
Piombino-Mascali, an anthropologist from Italy who has studied the
mummies 803=83=23p Faker, Fraud, Fantasy (F 907=97 Falsity,
Imaginary, Mocker) (3926/26=151 Jesus Christ)
The
work follows on their earlier discoveries: signs of rickets,
osteoarthritis and intestinal parasites in the mummies. And they are
not the only researchers unearthing new findings from the bodies of
the long dead but well preserved.
In
the heart of Vilnius, Lithuania’s Dominican Church of the Holy
Spirit is a bright masterpiece of Late Baroque architecture. But it
hides something darker. Inside, an altar stands behind a lar ge
wooden platform where people kneel and pray. Beneath this is a stone
staircase so narrow it can admit only one person at a time.
Researchers liken it to an entrance to a secret lair: The steps
descend to a dark and dusty underworld.
A
black metal gate leads to the labyrinthine chambers that house the
corpses. Once, there were body parts piled into a pyramid on the
floor and stacked on shelves that reached to the ceiling. For most of
their history , the corpses w ere preserved intact: Cool temperatures
and ventilation in the under ground chamber had caused them to under
go spontaneous mummification. ( Read more about how bodies
spontaneously mummify. Though they faced disturbances over the
centuries as the city and church were occupied by Napoleon, then the
Nazis, it was the Soviet occupation of Lithuania that brought about a
drastic change in the mummies’ fate.
Soviet
occupation of Lithuania that brought about a drastic change in the
mummies’ fate (FB 1630=163=38p Death) (S 3371=475p/25=19
Bogus) (E 5343/39=137=33p Fakery) (J 3943=547p=101p Lie)
Manufactured
news or actual mummies found preserved to enable further studies into
mummyology???
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/science/mummies-smallpox-vilnius-lithuania-crypt.html
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