Mysterious fate of two famous mummies

Those are the mummies or the famous body parts that have gone through periods of ups and downs.

Discover the hidden fate of two famous mummies

1. Admiral's corpse is soaked in hard liquor

Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, the first Viscount Nelson was famous during the Napoleonic Wars. He was shot dead at sea in October 10805 when he led the Royal Navy at the battle of Trafalgar famous for Napoleon.

Portrait of Admiral Nelson.

According to the huffingtonpos, Nelson's body was marinated in French spirits in a wooden coffin carved from the French war boat he captured. This work aims to preserve the intact Nelson corpse for a long time back to the mainland, instead of being buried on the sea according to the naval tradition of the navy. The coffin was placed in a larger casket filled with brandy.

The royal funeral ritual for Nelson was celebrated after his body was taken to London. Currently, his mummy is gathered in the tomb of St. Paul's Church.

2. The mystery of Mozart's skull

In 1902, the Mozarteum museum in Salzburg in Austria is said to have the skull of the famous composer Mozart.The skull has lost the lower jaw .

According to the Daily Mail, in 1801, Vienna's grave digger Joseph Rothmayer obtained the skull from the grave group where Mozart's corpse was buried in 1791 when he died at the age of 35.

Music prodigy Mozart.

However, there is also a document that Mozart was buried in a mass grave along with the poor who received relief with 4 -5 other corpses. This is also the burial style for middle class in Austria at that time.

According to huffingtonpost, a record suggests that the digger once connected a string to Mozart's head before burying, so it can be confirmed that the skull is the genius of the dead.

The skull then passed through many people , from the ring-puller in the graveyard and the brain collection of Dr. Hyrtl and the Mütter Museum skull museum, then ended at the Mozarteum museum in 1902.

Mozart's skull.

In 2006, after 104 years of skull possession, the Mozarteum Museum decided to test the DNA of the skull with Mozart's human DNA , including the femoral bones of his grandmother and granddaughter. Unfortunately the test results have disappointed many people.

The result not only indicates that the skull is not connected to the femoral females in the Mozart family. Moreover, her grandmother's femur and granddaughter were not related, raising suspicions.