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Originally posted by cownosecat
I thought mummies didn't have brains? Or atleast not ones that juicy. So if it's a hoax someone put something that looks like a brain into a mummy, burned it, then dressed up like a doctor and posed a few times.
Originally posted by mythatsabigprobe
Those pics are actually pretty convincing. They look more realistic to me than the Roswell alien autopsy and the skull looks a lot like this one.
Any conjectures that what these specimens represent are simply deformations or pathological cases can be hardly substantiated. Anomalous types of growth or shapes appear from time to time in the modern human population, however, these occurences are still within the range of the given species.The largest skull documented in the medical literature had the cranial capacity of 1980 ccm, however, the shape of the skull was normal. Also, it is necessary to keep in mind that any pathological growth of the cranium has dire consequences for the afflicted individual at the early stage of the development, practically without exception. Nature is very unforgiving in this respect. All the specimens presented here were mature individuals.
Originally posted by TheShroudOfMemphis
Originally posted by cownosecat
I thought mummies didn't have brains? Or atleast not ones that juicy. So if it's a hoax someone put something that looks like a brain into a mummy, burned it, then dressed up like a doctor and posed a few times.
Yeah, i don't think a mummy would have wet guts and a wet brain, the whole point of mummification is too remove these things first.
Originally posted by Janus
As for the skull a lot of ancient peoples practiced head binding to change the shape of the skull as it was thought to be more pleasing to the eye.
[edit on 20-6-2005 by Janus]
Originally by mythatsabigprobe
You can see these elongated skulls in the depictions of Mayan and Egyptian rulers and we're supposed to believe they were birth defects, but a 'defect' this extreme would most likely include severe brain disorders and it's doubtful they could even survive, let alone rule a country.
yes... the cranium can be expanded by forcing the soft skull plates of a baby to stay wedged apart and grow up, instead of together...
think of it like building an igloo, but never narrowing it towards the top... eventually to put a roof on it, you will let it angle in on itself, but it is much taller than an igloo by then...
Originally posted by LazarusTheLong
to whoever said that headbinding wont result in that look, you are wrong.
(it was common practice, but to imitate what?)
yes... the cranium can be expanded by forcing the soft skull plates of a baby to stay wedged apart and grow up, instead of together...
think of it like building an igloo, but never narrowing it towards the top... eventually to put a roof on it, you will let it angle in on itself, but it is much taller than an igloo by then...
this makes for a much taller braincase (that might never grow closed at the top.)