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    Mystery of Britain’s ‘Franken-mummies’ Two 3,000-year-old human skeletons dug up in the Outer Hebrides have been found to be a jigsaw of at least six different people who died hundreds of years apart. It is one of Britain’s most intriguing archeological mysteries. When two almost perfectly preserved 3,000-year-old human skeletons were dug up on a remote Scottish island, they were the first evidence that ancient Britons preserved their dead using mummification. The scientists who uncovered the bodies also found clues that one of them – a man buried in a crouching position – was not a single individual, but had in fact been assembled from the body parts of several different people. The discovery began a 10-year investigation into what had led the bronze-age islanders to this strange fate. Now, a new study using the latest in DNA technology has found that the two skeletons together comprise the remains of at least six different individuals, who died several hundred years apart. Now *this* is fascinating! Click here for the full story.

    Mystery of Britain’s ‘Franken-mummies’

    Two 3,000-year-old human skeletons dug up in the Outer Hebrides have been found to be a jigsaw of at least six different people who died hundreds of years apart.

    It is one of Britain’s most intriguing archeological mysteries.

    When two almost perfectly preserved 3,000-year-old human skeletons were dug up on a remote Scottish island, they were the first evidence that ancient Britons preserved their dead using mummification.

    The scientists who uncovered the bodies also found clues that one of them – a man buried in a crouching position – was not a single individual, but had in fact been assembled from the body parts of several different people.

    The discovery began a 10-year investigation into what had led the bronze-age islanders to this strange fate.

    Now, a new study using the latest in DNA technology has found that the two skeletons together comprise the remains of at least six different individuals, who died several hundred years apart.

    Now *this* is fascinating! Click here for the full story.