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The Mysterious Mummies of Cladh Hallan
The Mysterious Mummies of Cladh Hallan
Written By Mister Gu on Thursday, September 8, 2011 | 2:33 AM
In 2001 an archaeological excavations at Cladh Hallan on the island of South Uist have uncovered the remains of what are believed to be a mummified Bronze Age bodies, buried under the floor of a prehistoric house. The skeletons looked very unusual, like Peruvian mummies. DNA tests on British prehistoric mummies revealed they were made of body parts from several different people, arranged to look