Anthropologists Discover Mummified, Green Baby Hand
by Christopher Hassiotis Jun 7, 2018
Imagine opening a dusty box shelved away in a research facility. Inside you see some small bones, a few antique artifacts, and ... a tiny mummified hand colored an eerie shade of green. Would you shriek in terror? Would you worry it was a harbinger of some terrible curse? Would you at least see if the mummified hand could grant you a wish or two?
Remove the literary shock value, and that's precisely the dilemma that presented itself in 2005 when Dr. Janos Balázs, a biological anthropologist at Hungary's University of Szeged, and his colleague Zoltán Bölkei investigated a box filled with small bones and the mummified hand of a human baby found in central Hungary. Though discovered in a medieval cemetery, the remains of the baby — premature, miscarried or stillborn, according to the researchers — date back only to the second half of the 19th century.
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