7,000-year-old Chinchorro mummies represent a culture that turned grief into art
A recent study in Cambridge University Press sheds new light on the #Chinchorro.
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/chinchorro-mummies-turned-grief-into-art #globalmuseum #mummies
👶🎨 Researchers examining over 1,000 mummified remains in #Sudan found evidence that Nubians tattooed #children as young as 18 months old, with most tattoos appearing on faces of children under 11.
The practice coincided with #Christianity's arrival in the region, leading scientists to theorize the #tattoos served either as Christian baptismal marks or medical treatments for malaria symptoms.
Nanette Asimov: ‘Monster studies’ is a real thing — and it could help you through holiday anxiety
#monsters #academia #UCSC #psychology #literature #anxiety #holidays #Mummies #Zombies #Vampires #Werewolves #Frankestein
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/monster-studies-theory-academic-21223996.php
"New research reveals [...] that the skin found on newly discovered duck-billed dinosaur “mummies” [...] aren’t fossilized flesh at all but clay molds welded by microbes as the creatures decayed."
평양 City Rockers #410 – Horreur de Frappe ! (22-10-2025)
Tu vois Ô Auditrice ou Teur, le monde se divise en deux catégories : ceux qui lisent Horreur de Frappe, et ceux qui ont moins bien à faire (notre photo d’époque, garantie sans trucage).
Horreur de Frappe, nouveau zine gore & compagnie que viendront présenter ce soir ses deux éditeurs : ça va saigner, brailler aussi vu que ces messieurs auront dans leur musette une bande son idoine, et pas forcément punk-hardcore-bruits louches…
Pour choisir ta catégorie, tu écoutes (#oupas) ce soir à partir de 20h. Campus Lille, sur 106,6fm et en DAB+ (7C) vers Arras-Lens-Lille, ou sur le web tout partout grâce au http://www.campuslille.com !
Post-scriptum : Avant même sa sortie, prévue le 31 octobre au Caf&Diskaire, c’est Kiki et M. Dudin, fondateurs du zine Horreur de Frappe, qui nous font l’honneur de venir présenter leur premier numéro dans Pyongyang City Rockers.
Dans cette émission, on parle donc littérature de genre, création de nouvelles, mauvaises fréquentations dans les bars, IA #oupas, et plein d’autres trucs, le tout agrémenté par la playlist de nos invités (Alan Vega, Vision Of Disorder, Mummies, Flesh Eaters).
Avant ça les sélections de vos Grands Leaders : Ultra Sect, Skalpel, Prison Affair et Hektiks, et on finit sur les ex- Pyongyang, maintenant renommés Star City… Merci !
Et pour commander votre exemplaire, c’est par ici : https://www.helloasso.com/associations/horreur-de-frappe/boutiques/fanzine-horreur-de-frappe-1
La release party Horreur de Frappe au Caf’, c’est le 31 octobre !
La liste :
Ultra Sect – Modern Nights
Skalpel x Raan III – Anticoloniale Musique feat. Djamhellvice & Dj Loconels
Prison Affair – Celebrate Your Death
Hektiks – Dogs
Alan Vega – Speedway
Vision Of Disorder – In The Room
Mummies – The Fly
Flesh Eaters – Eyes Without A Face
Star City fka. Pyongyang – Horseman
#AnaVega #Hektiks #HorreurDeFrappe #Mummies #oupas #PrisonAffair #Skalpel #StarCity #VisionOfDisorder
Unearthed in 1935, Egypt’s “Screaming Woman” still baffles science. With intact organs, costly embalming, and a terrifying death mask, she is a haunting time capsule of ancient beauty, ritual, and mystery
#AncientEgypt #Mummies #Archaeology #HistoryMysteries #ScreamingMummy #Egyptology #DarkHistory#CTScanSecrets#Archeologyfinds#Ancienthistory#Storytelling#DidYouKnow#HistoryFacts#DocumentaryShort#WeirdHistory
Ma’at
She comprised the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, & justice. Ma’at was also the goddess who personified these concepts, & regulated the stars, seasons, & the actions of mortals & the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation. Her ideological opposite is Isfet (Egyptian: jzft), meaning injustice, chaos, violence, or to do evil.
The earliest surviving records indicating that Ma’at is the norm for nature & society in this world & the next, were recorded during the Old Kingdom of Egypt. The earliest significant surviving examples being found in the Pyramid Texts of Unas (circa 2375 BCE-2345 BCE).
Most Egyptian goddesses were paired with a male counterpart. Her masculine equivalent was Thoth. This is because their traits are similar. In other accounts, Thoth was paired off with Seshat, the goddess of writing & measure, who’s a lesser-known deity.
After her role in creation & continuously preventing the universe from returning from & returning to chaos, her primary role in ancient Egyptian religion dealt with the Weighing of the Heart that took place in the Duat.
Her feather was the measure that determined whether the souls (considered to reside in the heart) of the departed would reach the paradise other afterlife successfully. In other versions, Ma’at was the feather as the personifications of truth, justice, & harmony.
Pharaohs are often shown with the emblems of Ma’at to emphasize their roles in upholding the laws & righteousness. From the 18th Dynasty (circa 1550-1295 BC), Ma’at was shown as the daughter of Ra, suggesting that Pharaohs were believed to rule through her authority.
As the goddess of harmony, justice, & truth, Ma’at was shown as a young woman. She’s sometimes shown with wings on each arm or as a woman with an ostrich feather on her head.
The sun-god Ra came from the primaeval mound of creation only after he set his daughter Ma’at in place of isfet (chaos). Kings inherited the duty to ensure Ma’at remained in place. They with Ra are said to “live on Ma’at,” with Akhenaten in particular emphasizing the concept to a degree that the king’s contemporaries are seen as intolerance & fanaticism. Some kings combined Ma’at into their names, being referred to as Lords of Ma’at or Meri-Ma’at (Beloved of Ma’at). Ma’at had a central role in the ceremony of the Weighing of the Heart.
Ma’at represented the ethical & moral principle that all Egyptian citizens were expected to follow throughout their daily lives. They were to act with honor & truth in matters that involve family, the community, the nation, the environment, & the gods.
Ma’at was the spirit in which justice was applied rather than the detailed legalistic account of rules. She represented the normal & basic values that formed the setting for the application of justice that had to be carried out in the spirit & fairness.
From the 5th Dynasty (circa 2510-2370 BC) onward, the vizier (Jafar’s job in Disney’s Aladdin, the 1st one.) was responsible for justice and was called the Priest of Ma’at. In later periods, judges wore images of Ma’at.
The goddess Ma’at was the daughter of the Egyptian sun-god Ra. She was/is the wife of Thoth, who’s the god of wisdom who invented writing. She’s associated with the judgment of the dead & whether a person has done what’s right in their life. To do Ma’at was to act in a manner unreproachable or innocent.
So revered was the concept of Ma’at that Egyptian kings would often pay tribute to gods, offering small statues of Ma’at. This indicated that they were successfully upholding the universal order.
The earliest evidence for a dedicated temple is in the New Kingdom (circa 1569-1081 BC) era. Amenhotep III commissioned a temple in the Karnek complex. While textual evidence indicates that other temples of Ma’at were located in Memphis & at Deir el-Medina. The Ma’at temple at Karnak was also used by courts to meet regarding the robberies of the royal tombs during the rule of Ramesses IX.
In the Duat, the Egyptian underworld, the hearts of the dead were said to be weighed against Ma’at’s single “Feather of Ma’at.” This symbolically represented the concept of Ma’at in the Hall of 2 Truths.
This is why hearts were left in the Egyptian mummies while other organs were removed, as the heart (called “ib”) was seen as part of the Egyptian soul. If the heart was found to be lighter or equal to the feather of Ma’at, the deceased had led a virtuous life & would go to Aaru. A heart that’s unworthy was devoured by the goddess Ammit & its owner condemned to remain to the Duat.
The Weighing of the Heart, as usually shown on papyrus in the Book of the Dead (or in tomb scenes) shows Anubis overseeing the weighing & Ammit seated awaiting the results to eat those who failed. The image contains a balancing scale with an upright heart standing on 1 side & the Shu-feather standing on the other.
Other traditions God that Anubis brought the soul before the posthumous Osiris who performed weighing while the heart was weighed the deceased recited the 42 Negative Confessions as the Assessors of Ma’at looked on.
The Assessors of Ma’at are the 42 deities listed in the Papyrus of Nebseni, to whom the deceased make the Negative Confession in the Papyrus of Ani. They represent the 42 united nomes of Egypt. They’re called “the hidden Ma’ati gods, who feed upon Ma’at during the years of their lives.”
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#1081BC #1550BC #1569BC #18thDynasty #2345BCE #2370BC #2375BCE #2510BC #42NegativeConfessions #5thDynasty #Akhenaten #Aladdin #AmenhotepIII #Ammit #Anubis #AssessorsOfMaAt #BelovedOfMaAt #BookOfTheDead #Chaos #DeirElMedina #Disney #Duat #Egypt #EgyptianBookOfTheDead #Feather #FeatherOfMaAt #Goddess #HallOfTwoTruths #Ib #Isfet #Jzft #Karnek #LordsOfMaAt #MaAt #Memphis #MeriMaAt #Mummies #NewKingdom #OldKingdomOfEgypt #Osiris #OstrichFeather #PapyrusOfAni #PapyrusOfNebseni #Pharaoh #PriestOfMaAt #PyramidTextsOfUnas #Ra #RamesesIX #Seshat #ShuFeather #SunGod #Thoth #Vizier #WeighingOfTheHeart
Uit onderzoek naar tientallen prehistorische begrafenissen in Vietnam, Zuid-China en andere gebieden in #ZuidoostAzië blijkt dat jagers-verzamelaars hun doden hier al ruim 11.000 jaar geleden mummificeerden. De techniek hierbij bestond uit het roken en drogen van de overledene op een stellage boven een vuur. Deze vorm van #mummificatie is minstens 5000 jaar ouder dan de tot nu toe oudst bekende #mummies uit Chili.
https://historiek.net/oudste-mummies-gerookt-zuidoost-azie/177224/
This is a very cool one. The scientific report on the first naturally mummified big cats ever found - seven mummified cheetahs, some dating back thousands of years, discovered in caves in Saudi Arabia #science #caves #mummification #mummies #zoology #history 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2497...
Cheetahs naturally turned into...
#SGU #TheSkepticsGuideToTheUniverse
The Skeptics Guide #1054 - Sep 20 2025
News Items: #Conspiracy Physics, #Cancer Misinformation, Improved Nuclear Thermal #Propulsion, Oldest #Mummies, Not The #Screwworms; Who's That #Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: #Ethics in Research; Name That Logical Fallacy; #Science or Fiction
Webseite der Episode: https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu
Mediendatei: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/skepticsguide/skepticast2025-09-20.mp3
🚨 New archaeological bombshell: The world’s oldest known mummies aren’t from Egypt or Chile…
They’re from Southeast Asia — smoke-dried by hunter-gatherers 12,000 years ago.
This pushes intentional mummification way further back than we thought.
China. Vietnam. Laos. The ancestors were cooking up history.
#Archaeology #History #SEAsia #Mummies #AncientWorld #ScienceNews
𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱'𝘀 𝗢𝗹𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟮,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝗺𝗼𝗸𝗲-𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱
Scientists discover the world's oldest mummies - 12,000-year-old smoke-dried bodies from Southeast Asia that predate Egyptian mummies by 8,000 years! This groundbreaking discovery reveals our prehistoric ancestors' sophisticated preservation techniques.
#mummification #mummies #BurialPractices #AncientHistory
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/oldest-mummies-china-0022453
Ancient traditions uncovered - researchers have found evidence in vietnam of the worlds oldest known deliberate mummification around 14,000 years ago. Bodies appear to have been preserved through smoke drying thousands of years before egypt or chile.
Ancient Southeast Asian Mummies Could Be 12,000 Years Old, Scientists Discover
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have uncovered mummies in Southeast Asia that may be the world's oldest, with some remains estimated to be around 12,000 years old. The preserved bodies, found in various countries including China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and others, were buried in crouche... [More info]
#DoctorBaer further explains why they need to be careful in transporting the mummies to their final rest. And we get some fun sailor lingo: https://jdrozd.com/comic/the-case-of-the-mummy-express-pg-8/
Special thanks to my color assistant/flatter Phoenix Cram.
A discovery of #mummies has been made in #Finland and it's a question about natrual mummies created by the right environment. This gives the archaeologist an insight to peoples lives in the early 19th century.
Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20176293
The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Mummy Express is underway as a webcomic. Page 6 just dropped: https://jdrozd.com/comic/the-case-of-the-mummy-express-pg-6/
Arkeonews: Frozen but Not Forgotten: 2,500-Year-Old Tattoos of Siberian Ice Mummy Digitally Reconstructed. “Using high-resolution near-infrared imaging and 3D photogrammetry, researchers have re-examined the preserved tattoos of a 2,500-year-old Pazyryk mummy from the Altai Mountains. The tattoos, hidden beneath layers of mummified skin and centuries of degradation, are now being brought back […]
