8 Fascinating Mummy Discoveries that will Leave You Transfixed

700-Year-Old Mummy

This is a picture of a 700-year-old mummy. It was discovered in excellent condition by chance by some road workers in eastern China.

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Sacrificed Inca Children

The maiden, the boy, and the girl of lightning were three Inca children entombed on a bleak and frigid mountaintop 500 years ago as a religious sacrifice.

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Rosalia Lombardo

Rosalia Lombardo (1918 – 1920) was an Italian child who died of influenza. Rosalia’s father, General Lombardo, was sorely grieved about her death, so he approached Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, to preserve her.

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2400-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy with a Brain-Removal Tool

In 2012, a brain-removal tool used by ancient Egyptian embalmers was discovered lodged in the skull of a female mummy that dates back around 2,400 years.

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Mummy Found by a 10-Year-Old

A German boy discovered what appeared to be a bandaged Egyptian mummy inside an old wooden chest in his grandmother’s attic.

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Egyptian Mummy in Roman Robes

“Dressed” in Roman robes, a 2,000-year-old coffin stares back from a rare Egyptian grave in the Bahariya Oasis, about 225 miles (362 kilometers) southwest of Cairo.

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2,000-Year-Old European Found in China

An amazing discovery of 2,000-year-old mummies in the Tarim basin of Western China occurred in the early 90s. Strangely, the mummies were blond-haired and long-nosed.

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Plomo Mummy

The Plomo Mummy, or La Momia del Cerro El Plomo in Spanish, is the well preserved remains of an Incan child found on Cerro El Plomo in 1954.