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"It is rare to find a fossil like this in the tropics such as Indonesia, precisely in the East Java. This seems covered by volcanic deposits that are protected from high temperature, erosion and damage, "said Edi Sunardi, at Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java, told the Associated Press.
A team consisting of seven paleontologists from the Museum of Geology in Bandung, West Java, worked for a month to explore the complete skeleton of a creature 13 feet high around it.
"We believe the shape of his teeth, that it is a very primitive elephant," paleontologist Fachroel Aziz told the AP.
Researchers say 90% of bone elephant was successfully removed. Bone is currently being cleaned and will be investigated more deeply. However, scientists acknowledge the process of putting the framework as it had been before facing obstacles due to lack of funding, both equipment and expertise as a whole.
Aziz Fahroel from Bandung Geology Museum, said the newly discovered bones the first time in full from head to foot. From snout to the tip of the tail all complete and intact.
Species and age of the elephant will be examined based on bone samples. Initial studies showed that the elephant lived 200 thousand years ago. Scientists believe the elephant was larger than modern elephants as it is.
Aziz said Paleontologists have found about 2,000 elephants skeleton remains rare in Indonesia for 150 years, but none of them are in new condition compared to the recently discovered.
"We want to show the public that this is a spectacular discovery," he said.
The Museo de las Momias in the little province of Guanajuato in Mexico is full of the exhumed, mummified bodies of unfortunate locals who could no longer pay their graveyard rent.
History
Because of a unique law that is in force in this part of Mexico, graves in the local cemetery have to either be bought for an exorbitant amount or rented every five years. If the deceased's family fails to pay the rent, the body is exhumed and disposed of to make way for new arrivals.
Through some mysterious process that scientists have not been able to explain, a small proportion of the bodies from this graveyard end up naturally mummified.
Rather than being destroyed by the local authorities, these bodies are put in the macabre Museo de las Momias. Here they join a vast "human library," poised in all possible postures of death, that has been accumulating since the museum was founded in 1865.
Myth and Mystery
It is not only the death fetish of the Mexican imagination that has kept this museum going (there can be an eerie, almost carnivalesque atmosphere among the visitors lined up outside). The main draw is the air of supernatural mystery about the whole phenomenon.
Scientists from as far away as Tokyo have analyzed the bodies trying to find an explanation, but no one has so far succeeded in understanding why five or six exhumed bodies every year have turned into mummies.
Some speculate that the minerals in the soil are the cause, while others suspect divine punishment for crimes committed in life - the bodies seem condemned to a perpetually moribund half-life of paralyzed torment.
What to See
Whatever the explanation, this sort of place is obviously only for those with a strong stomach, and even hard nuts may want to avoid some exhibits – such as shelves full of mummified babies.
The only other known mummy-museum of this kind in the world is the Catacombe dei Capuccini in Palermo.
Realizing that there is a city of Bolzano in Italy, will exhibit mummies from around the world and more than 60 mummies on display in the arena's. The exhibition titled Dream of Eternal Life (Dream of Eternal Life) is followed by more than 60 mummies from Egypt, Asia, Europe, and South America are imported from 27 museums.
Mummy on display not only a human mummies, but also the animal mummies. Among the mummies on display, there is the most famous mummy, or Iceman Oetzi, 5300 year old mummy who is a mummy of a Neolithic hunter found in the Alps in 1991. Placed in a special refrigerator, known as Oetzi "wet mummy" oldest in the world because of his skin color and texture. In addition to the mummy exhibition will also feature artifacts that were related to age mummies were found. (photo? Ist)
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You need to answer these questions in a project. (Use the document on this page to record your research.) Your project can be a written report, a poster, or a computer generated project (powerpoint, photostory, comic life, etc). Be creative!
1. What is a mummy?
2. How does the mummification process work?
3. Why was mummification important to the Egyptians?
4. Was everyone mummified? If not, what people were chosen to be mummified?
5. What can you learn about the Egyptian people and the way they lived by studying mummies?