Mummies

When they say "Mummy", it is Egypt, Valley of the Kings, Tutankhamun. In fact, the first mummies were made chinchorro tribe that lived on a desert coast of Chile and Peru. For two thousand years before the first Egyptian mummies they tried to immortalize their dead. And not only the highest rulers, and all the inhabitants of the plemeni.

Scientists discovered in the burial chinchorro lot of handicrafts, from fish hooks and harpoons to the woods and devices throwing spears. These items are evenly distributed over the graves. This suggests that chinchorro sought to equate all citizens, while the Egyptians gave his immortality only faraonam.

Chinchorro were hunter-gatherers who lived in the desert of attacks on the territory of modern Chile and Peru. The communities generally did not exceed the number of 100 people. About 7000 years ago the Chinchorro invented the world's first artificial mumifikatsiyu.

What prompted people to mummify their dead for a long time remained a mystery. Why do people become so carried out section between the world of the living and the dead, what technologies were used, etc. Find the answer to help the snow on top of the mountain Nearby Sahama.

Researchers took samples of ice from the snow caps and conducted studies of its isotopic composition. On the basis of data on the ratio of oxygen isotopes, the scientists have shown that about 7000 years ago, in the Atacama Desert has come relatively wet period, which lasted about 3 thousand years. It was at this time, according to the archaeologists, has been a surge in population chinchorro.

But the desert attacks remained fairly dry to buried human body did not decompose and pass a natural mummification. According to the calculations of archaeologists, a sharp increase in the population has turned the desert into a large burial mummies. People often had to face Chinchorro mummies that in total led to a cult of the dead, fell deeply in manufacturing technology mummies.

Chinchorro removed from a deceased all soft tissue and replaces them with clay. Then, the body was placed on the skin and on the face mask of clay, often with an open mouth. Head wig decorated, and the skin is often stained with red paint. This technology is different from the manufacture of Egyptian mummies, but it is likely that the ancient Egyptians, like the people of Chinchorro, passed along the same path to the worship of their umershih.

Egypt also has a desert and arid climate, probably the ancient Egyptians also faced with natural mummies and also developed his concept of the transition from the world of the living to the world of the dead.

Source: www.e-parta.ru/ancient-history/2788-2012-08-15-12-53-54.html