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"Frankenstein" Bog Mummies Discovered in Scotland (nationalgeographic.com)
South Uist (Wiki)
much more at the link aboveIn a "eureka" moment worthy of Dr. Frankenstein, scientists have discovered that two 3,000-year-old Scottish "bog bodies" are actually made from the remains of six people.
According to new isotopic dating and DNA experiments, the mummies—a male and a female—were assembled from various body parts, although the purpose of the gruesome composites is likely lost to history.
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"I think you'd have to go back to a time when the rituals were more bizarre," Terry Brown, a professor of biomedical archaeology at the University of Manchester, said. "You'd have to go back to the mists of unrecorded time."
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The mummies were discovered more than a decade ago below the remnants of 11th-century houses at Cladh Hallan, a prehistoric village on the island of South Uist, off the coast of Scotland.
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