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Buried in a desert inside their BOATS – 200 mummies with Western features have been found buried in an isolated graveyard in Tibet. The graveyard is in the middle of a desert, yet they were buried inside their overturned boats a long time ago, meaning they must have traveled there by water. But where did they come from? They have already done DNA testing on them to try to answer this question.

They died almost 4,000 years ago, and their bodies were preserved by the dry air. The mummies have European features, with brown hair and long noses. The graveyard is identified by a group of tall, thin poles, pointing to the sky. Since these mostly mark female graves, archeologists think they may be phallic symbols.
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Marrying a close relative, as ancient Egyptian royalty often did, is not a good thing to do. Archeologists have often commented on the strangely distorted images of King Tut, which seem to indicate extreme birth defects. Now it’s been discovered that Tutankhamun had a club foot, walked with a cane and was killed by malaria.
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Using a computer – Thanks to the skills of artists (and psychics) who work on cold case investigations, people have a chance to see what the University of Chicago’s mummy may have looked like when she was alive and living in Egypt.

A Chicago forensic artist and a police artist in Maryland prepared the images, which depict a woman as she would have looked in 800 B.C. Both artists, though working independently, got strikingly similar results.
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