A tribe in Papugenia near Indonesia
She mummifies her dead by passing smoke over their corpses until they are petrified,
And here one of them bears one of his ancestors
A new study conducted by scientists from various disciplines at the University of Macquire in Australia, during which they analyzed an Egyptian mummy dating back to the pre-dynastic times (from about 3700 to 3500 BC), and it was kept in the Turin Museum, Italy, since 1901.
The results of this study provide strong evidence that mummification existed 1500 years ago, that is, before what is known historically. "Jana Jones" - a professor of archeology at the University of McQuery in Australia and the principal investigator of the study - says in exclusive statements to "Science": It was previously believed that this mummy was naturally mummified due to the factors of drought and heat in the cemeteries of Anita in Central Australia, which is likely to be The mummy was found in it.
"New information tells us that the ancient prehistoric Australian tribes already had knowledge of the embalming processes needed to preserve the body, and that they practiced a sophisticated religious belief system about the afterlife," she adds.
Jana explains that she's been conducting this research since 2014, but the problem is that they don't have whole bodies - just small fragments of linen in British museums.
The pieces of cloth were the only remaining evidence of the bodies, and through collaboration with archaeological chemist Ron Oldfield, we identified the presence of resins in the linen covers, but we had no other samples to expand this work.