Humans weren't the only things that ancient Egyptians mummified. Preserved around 2,500 years ago, these mummies are all adult crocodiles and unlike any ancient remains yet found from the region.
According to the researchers, while most mummified crocodiles are hatchlings or juveniles, all 10 of the new mummies, which went undisturbed for thousands of years, are adults. Including five skulls and five partial skeletons, they vary in the state of their preservation, though they’re all better preserved than the average, which is usually a pile of fragments.
In fact, the crocodiles look almost like they’re alive from afar, with their thick, scaly skin and their sharp teeth intact. And part of that illusion is thanks to the absence of resin and wrappings, which were omitted or mostly omitted from the preparation of these mummies around 2,500 years ago. “None of the crocodiles found at Qubbat al-Hawā showed evidence of the use of resin,” the study authors state in their study, “and in only a few cases were small pieces of linen found.”
Instead, they say, “it is very likely that the crocodiles were desiccated by ‘deliberate natural mummification,’” where the bodies were buried in the dry sand before being placed, unwrapped or only minimally wrapped, into the tomb.
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