VIDEO: Mom Has Been Dead for 300 Years but Her Body Is Intact. It’s Incredible What They Want to Do with HEr

There are a lot of things that we still don’t know about our ancestors and these things might even help us have a better life in the future. Scientists are about to further their research by studying how people lived and died in the 18th century with the help of some really well-preserved mummies.
According to ocregister.com, the ambulance that pulled up to Orange County Global Medical Center was in no hurry. After all, the two people it was carrying had been dead for two centuries.
Inside were two white crates, one shorter than the other. They held the bodies of Veronica Skripetz and her baby boy, Johannes Orlovits, two of the more than 250 mummies found in a forgotten crypt in a church in Vác, Hungary.
As part of the “Mummies of the World” exhibit now at the Bowers Museum, researchers performed CT scans on the two Monday, hoping to learn more about how they lived and why they died.
In 1994, repair work in the Dominican Church of Vác revealed a long-forgotten crypt. A constant airflow through the crypt and a cold, dry atmosphere naturally preserved the bodies of the more than 250 people buried there in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Jim Sutherland, a member of the Horus Mummy Research Group and one of the experts who will work with the CT findings, said it’s too soon to draw conclusions from Monday’s tests. Even so, the CT scans revealed the state of the bodies.
“The mother looks really intact, top to bottom, and the baby, it has some minor disruption, separated bones,” Sutherland said. As the soft tissues break down, bone structures can move in a body, he said.
Skripetz appeared to have died from tuberculosis, but Sutherland said the CT findings may be able to confirm that.
In a CT, or computerized tomography, scan, a computer combines multiple X-ray images into cross-section views to create 3D images of a body. Along with other tools such as written records and standard X-rays, mummy experts use CT scans to learn about diseases, injuries, causes of death and lifestyles without having to cut open or damage mummified bodies.
The bodies of Skripetz and her baby, with their dried, papery skin and old-fashioned clothes, made for a stark contrast with the modern machine at Orange County Global Medical Center. Szikossy and Katy Hess, associate registrar at the Bowers Museum, together carefully lifted Skripetz’s body onto the CT scan table. As the body moved slowly through the scanner’s aperture, cross-section images began to appear on the computer screen in an adjoining viewing room, as Dr. Maurice Yu, director of radiology for the hospital; Michelle McLaughlin, CT supervisor for the hospital; and Sutherland looked on.
What’s already known is that Skripetz had a life touched with death. Her son Johannes died at less than 1 year old, and he was the last of her three children, none of whom lived to age 3. After her husband, Michael Orlovits, a miller, died at 41 years old, Skripetz was a widow at 36. She remarried, but died shortly after, at age 38, in 1807 or ’08.

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