Two 3,000-year-old human skeletons dug up in the Outer Hebrides have been found to be a jigsaw of at least six different people who died hundreds of years apart.
It is one of Britain’s most intriguing archeological mysteries.
When two almost perfectly preserved 3,000-year-old human skeletons were dug up on a remote Scottish island, they were the first evidence that ancient Britons preserved their dead using mummification.
The scientists who uncovered the bodies also found clues that one of them – a man buried in a crouching position – was not a single individual, but had in fact been assembled from the body parts of several different people.
The discovery began a 10-year investigation into what had led the bronze-age islanders to this strange fate.
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Mystery of Britain’s 'Franken-mummies’
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Posted 23 September 2012 - 12:37 PM
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Posted 23 September 2012 - 12:53 PM
It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
...never let a little thing like a fact get in the way of a good theory!
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Posted 24 September 2012 - 12:06 PM
What qualifications are needed to be a "researcher" to come-up with these remarks ?
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Posted 24 September 2012 - 12:32 PM
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!
... or did I read it completely wrong?
... or did I read it completely wrong?
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Posted 24 September 2012 - 12:53 PM
I remember reading about this before (maybe on UM). Its an interesting situation and gives us far more questions than answers...
I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything.
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I reckon so.
Posted 24 September 2012 - 04:55 PM
There was no lego etc, back in the day. People got bored. What can I say?... we are a simple people, easily amused.
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Posted 24 September 2012 - 04:59 PM
Eldorado, on 24 September 2012 - 04:55 PM, said:
There was no lego etc, back in the day. People got bored. What can I say?... we are a simple people, easily amused.
The very first Mr potato head...
Sire spud body?
Edited by Junior Chubb, 24 September 2012 - 04:59 PM.
I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything.
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Posted 25 September 2012 - 07:22 PM
Fu-sion-HA! :-D
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 09:07 AM
Its alive its alive oops sorry I saw Franken-mummies and got carried away in the moment. 
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 09:55 AM
There are some Franken Mummies in the playground when I do the school-run in the morning.
Frightening, very frightening...
Frightening, very frightening...
I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything.
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I reckon so.
Posted 26 September 2012 - 11:06 AM
Junior Chubb, on 24 September 2012 - 04:59 PM, said:
The very first Mr potato head...
Sire spud body?
Sire spud body?
It coulda been "Make your own girlfriend" class. Ed Gein must have got inspiration from somewhere. I'm not joking.... lonely men do some weird, weird things.
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 11:32 AM
Eldorado, on 26 September 2012 - 11:06 AM, said:
It coulda been "Make your own girlfriend" class. Ed Gein must have got inspiration from somewhere. I'm not joking.... lonely men do some weird, weird things.
Your not wrong, I remember spending a month as a lonely man, a month best forgotten...
I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything.
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Posted 26 September 2012 - 08:50 PM
Junior Chubb, on 26 September 2012 - 09:55 AM, said:
There are some Franken Mummies in the playground when I do the school-run in the morning.
Frightening, very frightening...
Frightening, very frightening...
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