Giant Mummy Over 7-Foot Tall Found Among Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed In Egypt
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Subject: Giant Mummy Over 7-Foot Tall Found Among Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed In Egypt Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:26 am
Giant Mummy Over 7-Foot Tall Found Among Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed In Egypt
The stories that these million mummies tell appear endless. The Brigham Young team has excavated more than 1,000 of the mummies over the past 30 years, and Muhlestein admits the team has a publishing backlog. One discovery that hasn't been published is of a mummy who is more than 7 feet (2 meters) tall. "We once found a male who was over 7 feet tall who was far too tall to fit into the shaft, so they bent him in half and tossed him in," Muhlestein told the audience in Toronto. That's an extraordinary height given the generally poor nutrition these people had, Muhlestein told Live Science in an interview, adding that "even with great nutrition, it's really unusual" for an individual to reach that height. The great height could be because of a medical condition that caused an excess of growth hormone, but more research needs to be done to determine this.
Giant Mummy Over 7-Foot Tall Found Among Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed In Egypt
Subject: Giant Mummy Over 7-Foot Tall Found Among Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed In Egypt 
Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:26 am
