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Scientists have long known that peat has a unique property to preserve the remains of the dead for several centuries in the swamp of animals and people. Amazing “conservation” is possible explain the decomposition of moss sphagnum reacting with calcium and nitrogen. When draining swamps, people often find in the layer peat human mummies not decomposed and perfectly preserved. It is worth considering that some of these findings there are several millennia – a fact that puts many researchers to a standstill.
In 1950, villagers discovered the body of a child in a swamp. They decided that they had found a missing boy a year ago, and reported this to the police. When the body was delivered to the morgue, dumbfounded by the pathologist said that the found remains belong to a child who lived before the birth of Jesus Christ.
Forensic doctors can tell a lot of interesting things about bodies, which are sometimes found in swamps. In canned foods under a layer mummies peat food in the stomach is stored almost undigested, which allows you to easily determine what exactly a person ate before how to get into the quagmire. The hair of the dead is preserved almost in perfect condition, without changing its structure for hundreds of years being under the water column and a layer of rotted plants.
In 1984, another mysterious victim was found in England. swamps. The age of this mummy was about two thousand years, but This is not what surprised scientists. Having examined the contents of the deceased’s stomach, the researchers concluded that shortly before his death, he ate bread, heated before use to an inconceivable temperature of 200 degrees.
Over the past hundred years, about 3,000 human mummies have been found, preserved for centuries in peat, and even a whole village discovered explorers at the bottom of a dried swamp. Such findings help learn more about our past, unravel the secrets of history and to receive perfectly preserved material evidence of this or that another era.
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Mummies
