Mysterious mummy baby with 1 arm

Recently, in Hungary people showed up a baby mummy display, but only one arm was holding the clear green coin, the rest was small, the New York Time (NYT) of America on 18 / 5 updates.

According to NYT, in 2005, Hungarian archaeologist Dr. Janos Balazs found the arm of a mummy child holding a greened coin . The artifact is found at Nyarlorinc, a village in southern Hungary, located in 500 tombs dating from the middle of the 12th and 16th centuries. None of these are like the mummy mentioned above.

Baby mummy with an arm holding money.

More than a decade later, Dr. Balazs and his colleagues are thought to have deciphered the mystery, which is a unique form of embalming, the results just published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences No. issued in 4/2018.

According to Dr. Janos Balazs, this is a way of embalming the ancient people, the rest is too small to be confused with the mouse. The part found with the arm consists of several vertebrae, hip bones and leg bones stained in green. Both arms are green, but the right arm is covered with dried meat. The skin near the back is also marinated and is attached to five vertebrae. Most ribs and shoulders are not discolored.

Through a full examination, Dr. Janos Balazs determined that the dead are a premature or premature baby right after birth, ranging from 11-13 inches (28-33cm) and weighing about 0.5-1kg.

The rest of the mummy is currently on display at the Mora Ferenc museum, Hungary.

In terms of archeology, green bones are not uncommon, it is possible that bronze jewelry can make bones green when they decompose, or the child's body has been exposed to some kind of metal. . But how is the copper coin still in the baby's right hand?

After chemical analysis of the remains of the mummy, copper levels are hundreds of times higher than the average, this is also the only mummy with the highest copper content ever seen in mummies from ancient times. now on. In addition, archaeologists also found a small ceramic vase and an eroded coin.

The team concluded that, before the child was placed in a jar for burial, the coin was placed in the baby's hand. Many ancient cultures buried dead people in coins as a way to pay for transportation, bringing their souls into the eternal world. In this case, the antibacterial properties of the copper that protect the child's hand are not decomposed, making the wing intact. The burial of a child may be one of the first cases of ancient embalming of ancient people.

The two sides of the coin are found in the child's palm, circulated in the 19th century.

It is very likely that when the child is buried in a bowing posture, the copper chewed on other parts of the bone. Although the coin mystery is solved, there is still another mystery. Coins in the form of pre-Kreuzer or Krajcar, the currency circulated between 1858 and 1862 in Hungary. That means, the burial of a child does not happen in the Middle Ages. According to history books, Christian people of this period did not use coins when burial, so the mystery has not been faked yet.