The Luftg’Selchte pastor in the parish church of St. Thomas am Blasenstein
Instead of open, as was done in traditional mummies, the body received objects that preserve it through the rectal channel. Resulted.
A mummy in everything peculiar: belongs to an Austrian priest who died in 1746 in a small village. It is a parish vicar Franz Xaver Sydler von Rosenegg, found in St. Thomas Am Blasenstein’s parish, and the cause of tuberculosis death had already been.
What was not realized was that this mummy had been buried in a different way from all we had known so far. And it’s a curious way.
This is the first case of a mummified body that was identified as “embalmed” by filling the abdominal and pelvic cavity with various substances through the anal channelexplains a.
In the abdominal and pelvic cavity, the scientists observed the presence of spruce wood chips, pieces of branches and fabrics such as linen, hemp and linen.
“Clearly, the wooden chips, The branches and dry tissue absorbed much of the fluid within the abdominal cavity, ”said researcher Andreas Nerlich.
It is therefore a radically different way of embalming – instead of opening the body and preparing the organs, this mummy was embalmed through objects introduced by the rectal channel. And even today the body is preserved.
“This filling was made to absorb the liquid from the inside of the body, which led to a Excellent preservation of the chest and abdomen. If this body had been buried in a normal burial on the soil, the abdominal wall would have disappeared after a while and any researcher would only have noticed some wooden chips and cloths that could also have come from the surface of the body, ”describes the scientist and main author of this month in Frontiers in Medicine.
“The investigation of a well -preserved mummy should always – if possible – include a computed tomography exam, since the mummy’s X -ray analysis in 2000 did not detect the filling,” said Nerlich.
