Jim_Duyer
14th June 2024, 21:59
I had to post something - the multiple reports on the good and bad aspects of Trump were starting to bum me out.
A few weeks ago I posted a thread on the green blood and red hair found in some mummies from Paracas, Peru, and the fact that Mayo clinic examined them but did not release the results to the public. We do know that they had red hair, and were buried sitting up.
Mammoth Cave in South Central Kentucky is one of the natural wonders of the world, drawing tourists in droves for the chance to walk through miles of subterranean passages of unrivaled size and beauty.
In the year 1811, give or take, some miners were digging in Short Cave, located not too far from Mammoth Cave. When they reached a depth of 10 feet below the surface of the cave, they came across a large stone covering four upright stones with a well-preserved mummy inside. They contacted Nahum Ward, a wealthy amateur explorer that lived nearby, and he began an expedition to the cave. The miners had moved the mummy from Short Cave to Mammoth, where Nahum decided to purchase it.
The mummy was renamed Fawn Hoof due to the string of fawn (baby deer) hooves that were found with it, along with some utensils, dressing ornaments and some type of either woven or hand-sewn cloth.
This is an unusual crypt for that area of North America - the natives did not use that system of burial but instead normally laid them flat with their heads facing in a spiritual direction - sometimes East and sometimes North. The remains have been dated at over 2400 years of age, but they could be even older. Like the mummies in Peru, it was in a seated position, and like those it had red hair as well. There was no green blood reported but since this example was not as well encased in materials it may have simply evaporated. Ten feet of soil on top of it indicates quite a bit of time had passed.
There have been other mummy remains found in those caves, but we have no reports of them - perhaps they still sit in some private collection.
Here's an image of the seated mummy:
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And here is one of the crypt that she was found in:
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The mummy was a female, and probably of some importance based on the care that went into preserving her remains. She was unusually tall for a woman of that age at 6 feet tall. Her hair had been cut short - about an inch or two on the top and about two or three inches in the back portion of her skull. She was wrapped in two deer skins that were decorated with leaf and vine patterns.
The mummy was later exhibited at World's Fairs of 1876 and 1893 as the Mammoth Cave Mummy. After 1876, it was turned over to the Smithsonian Institution. They decided (in their infinite wisdom), to disassemble here into a loose collection of bones, and then stored her in a box under accession number 4789. After which she disappeared - literally. The Smithsonian has recently celebrated its 200th Anniversary of loosing historical artifacts - usually those that might tell us something about humanity's past. They lost a boat load of giant sized human skeletons over the years as well.
Here's what the bone pile looked like before it was disappeared.
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After analysis, the mummy revealed a lot to experts. In life, the person was six feet tall. The deerskin the mummy was wrapped in was decorated with various patterns. The mummy had red hair cut unusually. The hair color of the mummy was unusual and reminiscent of similar red-haired mummies that have been found in recent years in South America. Their origin remains unclear.
But in addition to being so well-preserved, another detail caught teachers' attention: it was embalmed in a very similar way to how the ancient Egyptians used to prepare for the afterlife. But then again, so were the mummy remains in Peru.
The scarce reports tell that the hands, ears, and fingers were extremely dried yet incredibly preserved. Nahum Ward said that the total remains as he bought them scarcely weighed 20 pounds.
The wardrobe of the Fawn Hoof female was given to a Mr. Ward, of Massachusetts, who then presented it to the British Museum. They, like the Smithsonian, seem to have a little bit of every artifact found worldwide - and they like to hide the good ones in the back, where the public will never see them. So good luck on getting any evidence from the clothes.
"Scientists today can't learn much from the mummy called Fawn Hoof," the official National Park handbook on Mammoth Cave declares, "because her once well-preserved body has been reduced to a skeleton stored in the Smithsonian Institution."
Nahum Ward, of Ohio, also purchased several other mummies and sets of artifacts, some of them as old as 2,400 years at the time. Over the next few years much of Ward's collection was put on display to the public in traveling oddities shows. The Fawn Hoof Mummy was taken first to Lexington, Kentucky and later moved to the American Antiquarian Society. And the founder of the Society, Isaiah Thomas, claims that the others were transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in 1876. At some point later they completely lost the body, so unfortunately, we are not able to learn any more about this enigma.
I have two questions for anyone learned in this field. How is it that her hair did not continue to grow after death - as many others do? How is it that her finger and toe nails were in "pristine condition" since they tend to grow after burial as well? She had not been made up nor had a hair cut - the reports above are from when she was removed from the underground crypt.
Well, I guess it does also beg the question of why nobody has asked these two questions previously.
A few weeks ago I posted a thread on the green blood and red hair found in some mummies from Paracas, Peru, and the fact that Mayo clinic examined them but did not release the results to the public. We do know that they had red hair, and were buried sitting up.
Mammoth Cave in South Central Kentucky is one of the natural wonders of the world, drawing tourists in droves for the chance to walk through miles of subterranean passages of unrivaled size and beauty.
In the year 1811, give or take, some miners were digging in Short Cave, located not too far from Mammoth Cave. When they reached a depth of 10 feet below the surface of the cave, they came across a large stone covering four upright stones with a well-preserved mummy inside. They contacted Nahum Ward, a wealthy amateur explorer that lived nearby, and he began an expedition to the cave. The miners had moved the mummy from Short Cave to Mammoth, where Nahum decided to purchase it.
The mummy was renamed Fawn Hoof due to the string of fawn (baby deer) hooves that were found with it, along with some utensils, dressing ornaments and some type of either woven or hand-sewn cloth.
This is an unusual crypt for that area of North America - the natives did not use that system of burial but instead normally laid them flat with their heads facing in a spiritual direction - sometimes East and sometimes North. The remains have been dated at over 2400 years of age, but they could be even older. Like the mummies in Peru, it was in a seated position, and like those it had red hair as well. There was no green blood reported but since this example was not as well encased in materials it may have simply evaporated. Ten feet of soil on top of it indicates quite a bit of time had passed.
There have been other mummy remains found in those caves, but we have no reports of them - perhaps they still sit in some private collection.
Here's an image of the seated mummy:
53265
And here is one of the crypt that she was found in:
53266
The mummy was a female, and probably of some importance based on the care that went into preserving her remains. She was unusually tall for a woman of that age at 6 feet tall. Her hair had been cut short - about an inch or two on the top and about two or three inches in the back portion of her skull. She was wrapped in two deer skins that were decorated with leaf and vine patterns.
The mummy was later exhibited at World's Fairs of 1876 and 1893 as the Mammoth Cave Mummy. After 1876, it was turned over to the Smithsonian Institution. They decided (in their infinite wisdom), to disassemble here into a loose collection of bones, and then stored her in a box under accession number 4789. After which she disappeared - literally. The Smithsonian has recently celebrated its 200th Anniversary of loosing historical artifacts - usually those that might tell us something about humanity's past. They lost a boat load of giant sized human skeletons over the years as well.
Here's what the bone pile looked like before it was disappeared.
53267
After analysis, the mummy revealed a lot to experts. In life, the person was six feet tall. The deerskin the mummy was wrapped in was decorated with various patterns. The mummy had red hair cut unusually. The hair color of the mummy was unusual and reminiscent of similar red-haired mummies that have been found in recent years in South America. Their origin remains unclear.
But in addition to being so well-preserved, another detail caught teachers' attention: it was embalmed in a very similar way to how the ancient Egyptians used to prepare for the afterlife. But then again, so were the mummy remains in Peru.
The scarce reports tell that the hands, ears, and fingers were extremely dried yet incredibly preserved. Nahum Ward said that the total remains as he bought them scarcely weighed 20 pounds.
The wardrobe of the Fawn Hoof female was given to a Mr. Ward, of Massachusetts, who then presented it to the British Museum. They, like the Smithsonian, seem to have a little bit of every artifact found worldwide - and they like to hide the good ones in the back, where the public will never see them. So good luck on getting any evidence from the clothes.
"Scientists today can't learn much from the mummy called Fawn Hoof," the official National Park handbook on Mammoth Cave declares, "because her once well-preserved body has been reduced to a skeleton stored in the Smithsonian Institution."
Nahum Ward, of Ohio, also purchased several other mummies and sets of artifacts, some of them as old as 2,400 years at the time. Over the next few years much of Ward's collection was put on display to the public in traveling oddities shows. The Fawn Hoof Mummy was taken first to Lexington, Kentucky and later moved to the American Antiquarian Society. And the founder of the Society, Isaiah Thomas, claims that the others were transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in 1876. At some point later they completely lost the body, so unfortunately, we are not able to learn any more about this enigma.
I have two questions for anyone learned in this field. How is it that her hair did not continue to grow after death - as many others do? How is it that her finger and toe nails were in "pristine condition" since they tend to grow after burial as well? She had not been made up nor had a hair cut - the reports above are from when she was removed from the underground crypt.
Well, I guess it does also beg the question of why nobody has asked these two questions previously.