Chinchorro Mummies: The World’s Oldest
Kaushik Patowary
May 20, 2022
When we say mummies, we think Ancient Egypt. Indeed, Egypt has some of the most famous mummies in the world, such as Tutankhamun and Ramesse...
Showing posts with the label Mummy
The Unknown Martyrs Who Became Catacomb Saints
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2020
Relics of saint and holy people have always been an integral part of Christianity. There was a time when bones, skins, fingernails, severe...
The Ancient Portraits of Fayuum Mummies
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2019
These haunting portraits of long-dead men, women and children come from a vast region known as the Fayuum Basin, located immediately to the ...
The Mystery of Lady Dai’s Preserved Mummy
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2018
Believe it or not, this grotesque figure is considered to be one of the world’s best preserved mummies. While her face looks swollen and de...
Xiaohe: A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2018
In the far eastern edge of the desolate Taklamakan Desert, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest settlement, a clump of dense wooden stake...
The Skeleton of Jeremy Bentham
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2018
Pictured above is the council meeting of the University College London. The council meets every year, but this particular picture was taken...
The Ancient Iranian Salt Mummies
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2018
In northwestern Iran, near the villages of Hamzehli, Mehrabad and Chehrabad, in Zanjan province, is a large salt dome protruding into the su...
The Negro of Banyoles
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2018
It’s one thing to keep the mummified body of a thousand year old pharaoh or a monk in a glass case in a museum, and another to stuff the dea...
The Fungus That Makes Mummies
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2017
In 1647, construction workers carrying out repairs on the Church of Saint Andrew in the small city of Venzone, in the province of Udine, Ita...
La Pascualita, The Corpse Bride
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2017
Peering out from behind the glass window of a small bridal shop in Chihuahua, Mexico, stands a tall, slender figure dressed in bridal costum...
Rosalia Lombardo: The Mummy That Blinks
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 10, 2017
Rosalia Lombardo was only two years old when she died from pneumonia in 1920. Her premature death left her father so heartbroken that he app...
The Smoked Corpses of Aseki, Papua New Guinea
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2015
We tend to associate mummies with ancient Egypt, but a lot of culture around the world practiced mummification. The Anga tribe of the Aseki ...
The Peculiar Burial Rites of Tana Toraja
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 3, 2015
The picturesque mountainous region of South Sulawesi, in Indonesia, is home to an ethnic group called the Toraja. A large number of its memb...
Tollund Man, The 2,400 Year Old Bog Body
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2014
Over the past few centuries, men harvesting peat in European bogs have discovered the preserved remains of hundreds of human corpses called ...
The Sarcophagi of Karajia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2014
About 60 km northeast of the city of Chachapoyas, in Luya Province, in Peru, lies the archaeological site of Karajia, where the funeral tomb...
Sokushinbutsu: The Bizarre Practice of Self Mummification
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2012
Scattered throughout Northern Japan around the Yamagata Prefecture are two dozen mummified Japanese monks known as Sokushinbutsu, who caused...
Mummies of the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 3, 2010
A 10-month-old baby who lived in Peru 6,420 years ago; a 17th-century nobleman; a South American woman with a tattoo on each breast and one ...
