Discover the most mysterious mummies in the world

Mummies are often associated with legends in Egypt. However, archaeologists have discovered and excavated many of the mummies that remain intact and contain many unexplored mysteries. Let's review some of the most strange and mysterious mummies around the world.

1. Virgin freezing Juanita

At the Monasterio de Santa Catalina catacomb in Arequipa, Peru, you can see with your own eyes the mysterious frozen mummies at the Museo Santury museum. This museum has an extremely strange mummy. It was the mummy of the virgin Juanita .

Juanita was identified as a 12-14 year old girl, who died about 500 years ago. Juanita's mummy is located on top of Mount Ampato , along with the skeleton of a boy, a girl and another woman. It is said that they were killed to make sacrifices for the gods in the mountains. Juanita's body was preserved in ice, so scientists called it "living evidence" of the Incas . This mysterious mummy was found on September 8, 1995.

2. Capuchin Tomb

Before the 18th century, at the Capuchin monastery in Palermo, Italy, the monks here performed a special funeral ritual: embalming their loved ones. The bodies were decorated and embalmed beneath the underground burial area, then hung on the wall. What is special is that these mummies have expensive costumes. When this form of funeral became famous, civilians were also placed in the tomb of the monastery.

By 1881, the Italian government banned the embalming of Capuchin. Until now, nearly 8000 mummies hanging on the monastery wall are still a mysterious 'masterpiece' of history.

3. Saint Bernadette

Bernadette's life is a mysterious life. Even when lost, the rural village girl Nevers (France) still surprised many people.

After Bernadette took 30 years, the church decided to examine her body. It was amazing that her body was not rotting, just like sleeping peacefully. Currently her body is located in Lourdes church. Scientists still do not understand why after 132 years, the body of St. Bernadette's body is still intact through all the power of time.

4. Egyptian Emperor Tutankhamun

On November 4, 1992, scientist Howard Carter found a coffin containing the body of Egyptian emperor Tutankhamun. The death of this young emperor still has many questions unknown. Tutankhamun mysteriously died in 1325 BC. There are many theories about Tutankhamun's death, perhaps he was assassinated, suddenly died or seriously ill.

In 1968, in a photograph of Tutankhamun's skull X-ray, a broken bone was found on his skull. Since then, rumors spread that the young king was killed. However, the fracture in the bone may also be due to a fall or an accident during the embalming process. Currently, with modern medical technology, it was found that the cause of Tutankhamun's death was due to malaria, but there are still many mysteries that exist around the mummy of this young Egyptian Emperor.

5. Tollund Man

If you witness this strange corpse, you will probably forget about Botox creams and anti-aging creams. Simply the body of this man was buried in peat and it was not decomposed, the face and body were still quite intact.

Archaeologists have discovered the background of this mysterious natural mummy . This is the body of a man who lived during the fourth century BC, the pre-Iron Roman period. In 1950, in a swamp in the Jutland Peninsula, Denmark, this mummy was discovered. Archaeologists also found streaks in front of the man's neck, perhaps the man was hanged. Currently, Silkebord museum is preserving this mummy.

6. Mummy in Guanajuato state, Mexico

Mummies in Guanajuato, Mexico are considered one of the most exotic and terrible mummies in the world. These mummies were buried collectively due to cholera outbreak in 1833, at least some of them were buried alive .

One of the typical mummies buried alive is the girl named Ignacia Aguilar . This girl suffers from a strange disease, her heart beating at a stop many times a day, relatives do not know so they buried it.

When her body was excavated, it was noticed that her face bent down to bite her arm and there was a lot of blood in her mouth.

There is also a mummy known as the "world's smallest mummy" , no bigger than a loaf of bread. It is said to be a fetus in an ill-fated woman who died in the cholera epidemic.

7. Mummy in Greenland

In 1972, eight very well preserved mummies were found in an abandoned Inuit settlement called Qilakitsoq, in Greenland.

Greenland mummies include a six-month-old child, a four-year-old child and six women of different ages. They died about 500 years ago. These corpses are naturally marinated by the heat and dry wind in the cave.

8. Mummy Ginger, Egypt

"Ginger" (ginger root) is the nickname given to the body of an adult male, preserved naturally and still retains almost intact yellow hair, nails and toenails despite dying. This is more than 5,000 years.

This mummy was found in Gebelein, Egypt in the late 19th century. It is considered to be the oldest Egyptian mummy ever turned.

9. Nazca mummy, Peru

Buried in desert sand, 30 km from Nazca City in Peru, these 1,000-year-old mummies have open jaw bones like an incomprehensible smile, still very much and . soft.

Perhaps it is because of the arid and harsh climate of the desert that the remains of the remains are kept intact, away from the attack of moisture and microorganisms.

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