The Swiss mummy 230 years old is the ancestor of the British Foreign Minister

Scientists have closed the decades-long study of mysterious excavated mummies in Switzerland by a woman who died in the eighteenth century with unexpected conclusions: she was the ancestor of British Foreign Minister. incumbent Boris Johnson.

The mummy excavated more than 40 years ago in the city of Basel - Switzerland was recently confirmed by scientists as the remains of Anna Catharina Bischoff, the wife of a missionary and died in 1787, according to information posted by local newspapers.

The mummy was unearthed in Basel - Switzerland in 1975 and until now has been identified.(Photo: SRF / PA).

According to the BBC news agency, Mrs. Bischoff is the 9-year-old grandmother of Secretary of State Boris Johnson . Her identity has been confirmed 99.8% after scientists extracted DNA samples from the big toe of the mummy to compare with the DNA samples of her descendants.

Mrs. Bischoff's relationship with the Johnson family was confirmed by records of birth dates, marriage and death records when she died.

Scientists through DNA research confirmed 99.8% that this mummy is from Anna Catharina Bischoff - 9-year-old ancestor of the current Secretary of State Boris Johnson (left).(Source: SRF)

According to the Swiss television channel SRF, she died of mercury poisoning at the age of 68 and her body was still in good condition thanks to the very high levels of mercury left in the body.

High levels of mercury in the body are often a sign that when they lived, they underwent procedures to treat syphilis with mercury, but in the case of Mrs. Bischoff, scientists think she might have Mercury poisoning while treating patients with this sexually transmitted disease.

Her body was unearthed in 1975 in front of the altar of the Barfüsser church in Basel during the renovation of this church. The position of burying the substance shows that Mrs. Bischoff is probably a high social status figure.

Sketch of portrait of Anna Catharina Bischoff - 9-year-old ancestor of Secretary of State Boris Johnson.(Photo: SRF / PA).

Although the media called her body a mummy because the skin and organs were almost intact, but according to Business Insider, she was buried according to Christian rituals and then people did not intentionally embalm or preserve. her body.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, Basel was a wealthy commercial city with harbors on the banks of the Rhine continually taking freight trains throughout Europe.

Local historians say members of wealthy families are often buried inside or around Barfüsser church and some tombs have stone steles. But Mrs. Bischoff's grave does not have steles.

Until last year, based on newly found archives, scientists learned that her mummy had actually been discovered once before in 1843. These records made the houses historians believe that she was a member of the Bischoff nobility.

She has 7 children but only 2 people lived until adulthood, in which her daughter, also named Anna, married Christian Hubert Baron Pfeffel von Kriegelstein.

The five descendants of the von Pfeffel family are Marie Luise von Pfeffel who married Stanley Fred Williams and has a daughter named Yvonne. Ms. Yvonne later married Osman Wilfred Johnson Kemal.

Mrs. Yvonne's son and Mr. Osman were Stanley Johnson, also the father of British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson.

Secretary Johnson expressed his pride on Twitter when he learned about the identity of the mummy is also his "grandmother".(Photo: Twitter).

After learning about this newly published research conclusion, Secretary of State Johnson expressed on personal Twitter: "It is gratifying to know about my" mummy "grandfather, a pioneer in the field of care. Sexual health. How proud. "