Mummies, that rarified form of ancestor worship, have been found in a Bronze Age site in Scotland. In the September 2005 issue of the journal Antiquity, researchers describe how using techniques established by forensic anthropology to study the breakdown and fossilization of bone, they found evidence of mummification far from the previously known cultures which practiced it in Egypt and South America.
Mummies, that rarified form of ancestor worship, have been found in a Bronze Age site in Scotland. In the September 2005 issue of the journal Antiquity, researchers describe how using techniques established by forensic anthropology to study the breakdown and fossilization of bone, they found evidence of mummification far from the previously known cultures which practiced it in Egypt and South America.Explore Archaeology
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