May
27
/ 2018
500 graves dated to between the 12th and 16th centuries were found in a cemetery at Nyárlőrinc, a village in southern Hungary. They contained a unique set of bones. In 2005, Dr. János Balázs, a biological anthropologist at the University of Szeged, and his colleague Zoltán Bölkei examined a storage box from the medieval dig and discovered “green mummified bones,” as they told reporters at the New York Times. Now, 13 years later, Dr. Balázs and his colleagues might have discovered the story behind this perplexing find. In last month’s journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences they provided new evidence of a hitherto unknown form of mummification. Measuring only 11 to 13 inches (27.94-33.02 cm) and weighing only one or
