13 the most terrifying mummies of the world

Probably all of you watched a horror movie about a mummy come to life, attacking people. These evil dead has always excited the human imagination. But in reality, mummies do not carry anything terrible, representing an incredible archaeological value. In this issue you will find 13 real mummies that have survived to our time, and is one of the most significant archaeological finds of our time.

Mummy called specially treated with a chemical the body of a dead being, which slows down the process of decomposition of the tissues. Mummies are hundreds and even thousands of years, becoming a "window" in the ancient world. On the one hand, mummies look creepy, some getting goose bumps just looking at these shrunken body, but on the other hand, they represent an incredible historical value, keeping in itself the most interesting information about the life of the ancient world, customs, health and diet of our ancestors.

1. Screaming mummy Museum of Guanajuato

The mummies of Guanajuato in Mexico is one of the most strange and terrible in the world, collected here are 111 mummies, which are a naturally preserved mummified bodies of people, most of them died in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century and buried in the local cemetery "Pantheon of St. Pauli".

The exhibits of the Museum were exhumed in the period from 1865 to 1958, when a law was binding relatives to pay a tax to the bodies of their relatives were in the cemetery. If sales tax is not paid on time, the family lost the right to the place of burial and the dead body was removed from the stone tombs. As it turned out, some of them were naturally mummified and kept them in a special building at the cemetery. Contorted expressions on some of the mummies suggests that they were buried alive.

In the late XIX — early XX century, these mummy began to attract tourists, and cemetery workers began charging for use of the premises, where they were stored. The official date of formation of the mummy Museum in Guanajuato is 1969, when the mummies were exhibited in glass cases. Now the Museum is visited annually by thousands of tourists.

2. Mummy boy from Greenland (place Kilakila)

Near the Greenland settlement Colacicco, located on the Western shore of the largest Islands in the world, in 1972, was discovered a family, mummified by low temperatures. Nine well-preserved bodies of the ancestors of the Inuit who died in Greenland at a time when Europe ruled the middle ages and has caused great interest of scientists, but one of them is famous in the world and outside the research framework.

Belonging-old child (as found by anthropologists, who suffered from down's syndrome), it is more like some kind of doll, makes an indelible impression on the visitors of the National Museum of Greenland in Nuuk.

3. Two-Year-Old Rosalia Lombardo

Catacombs of the Capuchins in Palermo Italian — it's a horrible place, necropolis, which attracts tourists from all over the world with many mummified bodies of various degrees of preservation. But the symbol of this place is baby face Rosalia Lombardo, a two-year girl who died of pneumonia in 1920. Her father, unable to cope with grief, turned to the famous physician Alfredo Salafia with a request to keep the body of her daughter.

Now it makes him hair on the head to all visitors dungeons Palermo — stunning preserved, peaceful and so alive that it seems as if Rosalia is only a bit drowsy, it makes an indelible impression.

4. Juanita from the Peruvian Andes

Whether another girl, or have a girlfriend (also known as the age of death from 11 to 15 years), named Juanita, became world famous, once in the ranking of the best scientific discoveries by Time magazine due to its safety and creepy story after finding the mummies in the ancient Inca settlement in the Peruvian Andes in 1995, said the scientists. Sacrificed to the gods in the XV century, it has reached our days in almost perfect condition, thanks to ice the peaks of the Andes.

As part of the exposition of the Museum of Andean Sanctuaries in Arequipa, the mummy is often sent on tour, exhibited, for example, in the headquarters of the National geographic society in Washington, or at many venues in the Country of the rising sun, generally differing in the strange love of mummified bodies.

5. Knight Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz, Germany

This German knight lived in the period from 1651 to 1702. After his death his body was turned into a mummy in a natural way and is currently on display for everyone to see.

According to legend, knight Kahlbutz was a great lover to use the "right of first night". Have a loving Christian had 11 children of her own, and about three dozen of the bastards. In July 1690 he said his "right of the first night of" relatively young bride of a shepherd of the village of Buchwitz, but she refused him, and then the knight killed her new husband. The prisoner is in custody, he swore in front of the judges, it wasn't my fault, otherwise "after his death his body will crumble to dust."

Since Kahlbutz was an aristocrat, his honest words were enough for him acquitted and released. Knight died in 1702 at the age of 52 and was buried in the family vault background Calbucci. In 1783, the last representative of the dynasty passed away and in 1794 in the local Church started the restoration, during which the tomb was opened, to rebury the dead family background Kahlbutz on a regular cemetery. It turned out that all of them except Christian Friedrich, decayed. The latter was turned into a mummy that has proven the fact that loving a knight was a perjurer.

6. The mummy of the Egyptian Pharaoh — Ramses the Great

Shown on the picture the mummy belongs to Pharaoh Ramses II (Ramses the Great), who died in 1213 BC, and is one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs. I believe that he was the ruler of Egypt during his campaign of Moses. One of the distinguishing features of the mummies is the presence of red hair, symbolizing the connection with the God Seth — patron of the Royal power.

In 1974, Egyptologists have discovered that the mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II spoils quickly. It was decided immediately to take her plane to France for examination and restoration, for which the mummy has designed the modern Egyptian passport, and in the "occupation" wrote "king (deceased)". In the Paris airport mummy was greeted with full military honors, relying at the visit of the head of state.

7. Mummy girl 18-19 years from the Danish city Skrydstrup

Mummy girls aged 18-19 years old, buried in Denmark in 1300 BC, the Deceased was a tall, slim girl with long blonde hair, laid in an intricate hairstyle, something resembling Babette 1960‑ies. Her expensive clothes and jewelry can be assumed that she belonged to a family of the local elite.

The girl was buried in a coffin made of oak, lined with grasses, so her body and clothing are surprisingly well preserved. The safety would have been even better if a few years before it was discovered this mummy was not damaged layer of soil over the grave.

8. Ice man ötzi

Similowski man, whose age at the time of opening was about 5300 years, which made him Europe's oldest mummy, received from the scientists nicknamed ötzi. Discovered on 19 September 1991 by a pair of German tourists during a walk in the Tyrolean Alps, stumbled on the perfectly preserved due to the natural ice mummification remains a resident of the Chalcolithic era, he made a splash in the scientific world, yet nowhere in Europe did not found a perfectly preserved to the present day the bodies of our ancestors.

Now this tattooed mummy can be seen in the archaeological Museum of Bolzano, Italian. Like many other mummy, ötzi allegedly shrouded in an aura of the curse: for several years under different circumstances, killed several people, one way or another connected with the study of the Iceman.

9. Girl from IDA

Girl from IDA (niderl. Meisje van Yde) — the name given to the well-preserved body of a teenage girl found in a peat bog near the village of Yde in the Netherlands. This mummy, found on 12 may 1897. The body was wrapped in a woolen cloak.

Around the neck of the girl was covered with woven wool loop, indicating that it was executed for some crime either sacrificed. In the region of the clavicle preserved traces of the injury. The skin was not touched by decay, which is characteristic of bog bodies.

The results of the radiocarbon analysis conducted in 1992 showed that she died around the age of 16 years between 54 BC and 128 ad, the Head of the corpse half shaved shortly before his death. Preserved long hair have a reddish hue. But it should be noted that the hair all the bodies trapped in the swamp environment, acquire a reddish color as a result of denaturalization coloring pigment under the influence of acids, located in the marshy ground.

Computed tomography identified that the life she had curvature of the spine. Further research allowed to conclude that the cause of this, most likely, was the defeat of the vertebrae with bone tuberculosis.

10. The man from the morass Rendsburg

People from Wandsworth (Rendswühren), which also belongs to the so-called swamp people, was found near the German city of Kiel in 1871. At the time of death of men aged between 40 and 50 years, and the study of the body revealed that he died from a blow to the head.

11. SETI I — Pharaoh of Egypt in the tomb

Perfectly preserved mummy of SETI I and the remains of the original wooden coffins were discovered in a cache of Deir El-Bahri in 1881. SETI I ruled Egypt from 1290 in 1279 BC Mummy of this Pharaoh was buried in a specially prepared tomb.

The network is a secondary character in a science fiction movie "the Mummy" and "the Mummy returns", where he is depicted with a Pharaoh who fell victim to a conspiracy of his high priest Imhotep.

12. The mummy of a Princess of Ukok

The mummy of this woman, nicknamed the Altai Princess, were found by archaeologists in 1993 on the Ukok plateau and is one of the most important discoveries of archaeology of the late twentieth century. Researchers believe that the burial was done in the V‑III centuries BC and refers to the period of the Pazyryk culture of Altai.

During the excavations, archaeologists discovered that the deck, in which was placed the body buried, filled with ice. That is why the mummy of a woman well preserved. The burial was trapped in the ice layer. This was of great interest to archaeologists, since in such conditions could persist for a very ancient things. In the chamber found six horses under saddle and harness, and a wooden deck made of larch wood, boarded-up bronze nails. The contents of the burial clearly indicated nobility buried person.

The mummy lay on her side with slightly toned legs. On her hands found numerous tattoos. Worn by the mummies were silk shirt, wool skirt, felt socks, coat and wig. All the clothes were made of very high quality and indicates a high status burial. She died at a young age (around 25 years old) and belonged to the elite of the Pazyryk society.

13. The ice maiden of the tribe of the Incas

This is the famous mummy of a girl at the age of 14-15 years, which the Incas sacrificed more than 500 years ago. She was discovered in 1999 on the slopes of the volcano Nevado Sabancaya. Next to this mummy was discovered, several children's bodies also undergone mummification. The researchers suggest that these children were selected among others due to its beauty, followed by many hundreds of kilometers across the country, have been specially prepared and sacrificed to the gods on the top of the volcano.