Modern Technology Reveals Mummy's Past

mamamia writes "The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died — and at such a young age — remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy."

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Re:mortality

[Anonymous Coward]

Stolen from Wiki:

Neanderthal 20 Homo neanderthalensis is actually a different species from modern humans but is still in any case a fellow member of the genus homo.
Upper Paleolithic 33 At age 15: 54[1][2][3]
Neolithic 20
Bronze Age 18[4]
Classical Greece 28
Classical Rome 28
Medieval Britain 33
End of 19th Century Western Europe 37
Current world average 66 [5]
Present Day Native Groups 34 At birth: 34
At age 15: 54
At age 50: 67[2][6]

European mother is not surprising

[ucblockhead]

Given that this mummy died well after the time of Alexander the great, having a mother with European ancestry is not at all surprising. Since the Ptolomies, who ruled Egypt from Alexander's conquest to the time of Cleopatra were all descended from a Macedonian general, one would expect lots of Macedonian genes in the Egyptian aristocracy. This would only be interesting of the mummy was from before the time of Alexander, i.e. before 323 BCE. Hell, given how much inbreeding those guys did, it'd be more surprising if there were Egyptian genes.

This is not to say that the proofs are impressive...this sort of testing is cool stuff. But the results are pretty much what you'd expect knowing the history of the area.

(The death at a young age is also hardly surprising given the mortality rates for children in that era.)

History: Science or Fiction ?

[Delifisek]

There are some guy named Anatoly Fomenko. He was Mathematician. Somehow he try to resolve dates of Ancient Egyip Zodiac's then found interesting dates. Most of them shown after 1000 A.D.

If we believe thim, entire choronogical history was Fiction...

He says,
Jesus born 1053 and Died 1086 A.D. First Crusade was punishement action against his death and so...

Even he says, Real Jarusalem was Constatinopole...

Scared, so scared...