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These two crocodile mummies are presently preserved in Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley, California. Hey Fairy! How Can You Resist the Enticement of Designer ugg boots The museum administrator Ellison Lewis says the scan results that there are at lest mixing two Nile River crocodiles’ bones. 4 Reasons for You to Put on Pop UGG Boots Sale And among them, two are skulls, one is shoulder blade and another one is thigh-bone. In the late 19th century, the two crocodile mummies were bought in Egypt by a philanthropist called Phoebe Hearst, but their origin still remained a mystery. Recently, researchers have renovated them to carry on a lot of research. The “Conservator’s Art: Preserving Egypt’s Past” was held in Phoebe Hearst Anthropology Museum last week, and where the two mummies were shown to the public. It was common for the ancient Egyptians to use animal’s carcasses to create mummies. According to the anthropology museums, the ancient Egyptians kept thousands of crocodiles’ bodies through corrosion protection, and then buried all these crocodiles in a huge tomb as the sacrificial offerings to the crocodile god Sobek.
2. Crocodile ballast? The crocodile mummy in Hearst Museum is full of a trace of a mystery. It wraps intact adult and cub bodies. When bought in 1899, the crocodile mummy’s wrapping materials had already disappeared. The scientists hope to find the secret inside the crocodile body. Jane Williams, the deputy keeper of the museum, said the results of CT showed there are some strange white things (at the right and bottom). They may be some stones which were wallowed by crocodiles and as the sandbag to keep balance in the water. Lewis pointed that CT was a kind of non-intrusive research way, and could take on the inside situation of the mummy in detail. The third one is the baby crocodile mummy. The adult crocodile mummy has the length of 5.5 feet (about 1.7 meters), on its back there “riding” with more than 30 pups with a crocodile mummy. Nile crocodile experts said the young mummies staying in their parents is a more common way of moving.
The museum blog said the baby mummies are covered by linen originally, and were stuck in the back of adult mummy by a mummy balm that adherent. In ancient Egypt, the mummy makers embalmed the dead bodies by balm. The ointments applied in the crocodile’s body are the conifer resin, beeswax and fat mixture, and just the same of the production of human mummies. This finding is clearly rejected the point of view of “lower cost of production animal mummies, the process even more so-so”. But the material like tar will degrade over time, some crocodile cub finally dropped down after many years. To this end, the museum’s Lewis and Williams using a synthetic adhesive, re-mummy crocodile cub clung to it.
4. 3D crocodile mummy: a 3D side view showed the cub crocodiles at the back of the adult ones. In the laboratory of Stanford University, the two crocodile mummies were respectively scanned twice, once using the low resolution of clinical scanners. And the other time by high resolution scanner which can produce the 3D model of the object and present more details for finding out the trivial difference. The Stanford Medical School’s blog stated that the calcium deficiency (lower BMD) in the crocodile cub’s bone can only be detected under high resolution scanner.
The fifth issue is the sacrificed crocodile. Williams said that the results of high resolution scan showed each part of the crocodile was wrapped by stems of papyrus to reinforce. Totally, ancient Egyptians have made two types of crocodile mummies. One was the hobble mummy, which was considered as the incarnation of Sobek (the god of crocodile). Another one was the mummy used to be submitted as sacrificial offerings. The sacrificial crocodiles lived in the lake near the temple, particularly in IL Fayum region of Egypt. Visitors of the temple would made denotation and the priests would offer embalmed sacrificial offerings, that is, crocodile mummies. Then they would bury the crocodiles in the name of the donors.
6. Fishhook Found in the Mummy: the Hearst museum administrator Louis revealed that the low resolution scan result of the unveiled mummy still had a great deal of details in hiding as it showed in the scan picture below. By contrast, the high resolution picture above captured some exciting new details. From the inside of the crocodile‘s stomach, researchers found the skeletal remains of the prey and a hook. Subsequent analysis showed that the hook was made by ancient Egyptian manufacturing technology. The hook may be swallowed by the crocodile when it was enjoying its last meal. Williams pointed out that the hook has not eroded, which indicates that it may be made by bronze
