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Alpen-Gletscher releases the next mystery find: hundreds of years old mummies found

2022-09-15T03:05:04.756Z


Alpen-Gletscher releases the next mystery find: hundreds of years old mummies found Created: 09/15/2022, 04:54 By: Marc Dimitriu There is a sensational discovery in Switzerland. Bones have been found on the Saleina Glacier in Valais for years. Now it's clear who they belong to. Orsières - Bones and mummified clothing have been found on the Saleina Glacier in the Swiss canton of Valais for 15 y


Alpen-Gletscher releases the next mystery find: hundreds of years old mummies found

Created: 09/15/2022, 04:54

By: Marc Dimitriu

There is a sensational discovery in Switzerland.

Bones have been found on the Saleina Glacier in Valais for years.

Now it's clear who they belong to.

Orsières - Bones and mummified clothing have been found on the Saleina Glacier in the Swiss canton of Valais for 15 years.

They were spread out over a length of 800 meters on the mountain, the

Blick

reports .

Now there is new information about the finds.

Saleina Glacier in Switzerland: mummies found in the Alps – the remains probably belong to a woman and a man

The human remains are believed to be of a woman and a man.

They are said to have lived in the Rhone Valley between 1640 and 1800.

The program "Mise au Point", which ran on Sunday evening on the French-speaking Swiss television station RTS, first reported on it.

Romain Andenmatten from the cantonal office for archeology in Valais confirmed this. Andenmatten told the Keystone-SDA news agency that it was a "very interesting case".

Symbolic picture: Valais Alps in Switzerland.

© IMAGO/M.

Woike

However, he could not say "whether they were traveling together at the time of their death or whether they were separate events".

It is only certain that the two lived in the Rhone Valley between 1640 and 1800.

Now the researchers are trying to find out more about the history of the two.

For this purpose, the finds should be dated more precisely in order to find out which of the items of clothing belong to whom.

Bone finds in the Alps: Glacier melt brings centuries-old secrets to light

According to

Blick

, the discovery is reminiscent of the "mercenary" found in 1984 on the Theodul Pass in the Zermatt region.

According to experts, he died around 1600 and was found with his clothes, shoehorn, shoes, razor, coins, dagger, sword and pistol, according to the newspaper.

However, investigations revealed that he was more of a trader than a mercenary.

The melting of the glaciers in the Alps, due to climate change, has promoted more and more such finds in recent years.

In this way, many hidden secrets are released from the ice masses.

(md)

Source: merkur

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