One third of the ancient Egyptian mummies animals are fake
According to research by British scientists about a third of the ancient mummies of animals within the blank.
The studies were conducted employees of the University of Manchester and the museum during this study were scanned about 800 animal mummies. As a result of such an extensive scan of Egyptian mummies animals, researchers discovered that about 305 of the mummies are merely bundles of cloth that are empty inside and only superficially resemble the animal.
According to the researchers produced a fake at times manufacturing mummies because excessive demand for animal mummies. Indeed, in ancient Egypt, mummies were made of birds, cats and crocodiles and mummies manufacturers simply do not have time to make all orders.
Ucheny also reported that one-third of the mummies actually the remains of animals that are very well preserved, but it is still one-third parts of animals, and in one-third of all blank convolution.
in Egypt found 30 catacombs in which are buried mummies millions of animals. Each of the graves dedicated to a particular type of pet dogs, cats, monkeys, crocodiles, ibises.
Scientists believe that about 70 million mummified animals.
Dr Campbell Price from Manchester Museum, said: “The scale of the mummification of animals between about 800 BC and the Roman period was a giant ».
Dr Lydia McKnight of the University of Manchester said that many of the animals grown and killed in an industrial scale,” With so many graves of animals were killed when they were very young . In addition, certain there was some special program of their breeding ».
However, scientists believe that the huge demand for the mummy was still impossible to meet:” We believe that mummification is often used not the animals themselves and their particles, or something to do with their lives – such as pieces of eggshell or residues nests. They had a special significance for the Egyptians, because they were in close proximity to animals, although they were not actually dead bodies of animals, “- says Lydia McKnight.
The scientists also added that empty fake mummy can not be named because of during their manufacture used what they could find.
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