What the "gods" knew and were able to do - people were able to keep only the remnants of the memory of this. Carrying through the centuries in the form of myths and legends …
A rare find or traces of a lost technology ?! Egyptologists from the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge University expected that in a small cedar sarcophagus of the 7th-6th centuries BC, the embalmed internal organs of an adult would be found. However, computed tomography showed that there is … a human embryo inside.
The sarcophagus, no larger than a shoebox, was brought to the museum from Giza in 1907. Until recently, museum staff believed that it serves as a repository for internal organs, which the ancient Egyptians removed from the body during embalming and kept separately. In preparation for the exhibition Death on the Nile: Revealing the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt, the researchers performed a computed tomography scan of the sarcophagus and found an embryo there, aged 16 to 18 weeks. He was in a posture typical of Egyptian burials with his arms crossed on his chest.
Julie Dawson, chief restorer of the Fitzwilliam Museum, believes the unusual find shows us just how precious even an unborn child was in Egyptian society. “The thoroughness in preparing this burial clearly demonstrates the importance attached to life even in the first weeks of its inception,” she says.
The miniature sarcophagus used in this burial, carefully carved from wood, has a shape characteristic of ordinary sarcophagi of the Late period of Egyptian history, that is, the reign of the 26th - 30th dynasties (664 - 525 BC). The tiny mummy inside was carefully bandaged and topped with black resin.
Archaeologists have come across the previously embalmed remains of unborn children among Egyptian mummies only a few times. In the famous tomb of Tutankhamun, two embryos aged 25 and 37 weeks were found mummified and buried in separate sarcophagi. It is assumed that these are the daughters of the pharaoh.
However, another hypothesis on this score is admissible. The fact is that a number of evidence indicates that at least some of the Egyptian sarcophagi were actually used as a kind of … biocameras. They were the legacy of the ancient "god" Anubis, so to speak, in charge of not only treatment, birth, but even the resurrection from the dead! In them, a person (or "god") underwent a procedure of complete or partial restoration, including at the cellular level. There was an opportunity to undergo cleaning, to be cured of pathogenic bacteria or viruses. The "technology of the gods" worked only with their direct participation. It is also possible that life could be grown artificially in such sarcophagi - it is just about human embryos … For example, for the pharaohs - in whose veins a small admixture of "blood of the gods" flowed. And in order to preserve it, they went for bearing by artificial methods, not in the mother's body.
But, as rare finds show, not all experiments were successful, and some of the embryos, for some reason, did not survive, died at the initial stages. Then they were still buried with great honors … As “children of the gods”.
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