The Bloody Secrets Behind The Mummy With The Pierced Skull | Mummy Forensics | Odyssey

What are the secrets behind this Peruvian mummy and what is the reason for the mysterious hole in its skull? Doctor Joann Fletcher investigates an enigmatic Peruvian mummy as the team try to work out who this person was and how they lived.
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[@SilkeSaint]

I have a low key crush on Dr. Fletcher’s high key genius😏💕

[@Alvaloise]

I Love Dr. Fletchers Passion for Sience and the Empathie and Grace that she gives to the Corpses . Everytime she walks you back in Time

[@hellagood67]

What a great program. I am learning so much. Goes to show, even an old lady can learn new things.

[@linkster57]

Incredibly interesting. Thank you for ALL your hard work. I guess corpses really can talk.

[@2951hawkeye]

I was just wondering if y'all posted anything new. The HH always gets me. With them Big H stones this channel reminds me of them

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

Saying that Prof. Brothwell, a leading expert was “at hand”, makes it sound like the Professor just happened to be walking past the office one day and they called out and asked him if he wanted to take a peek at the mummy. It makes it sound like he wasn’t originally part of the project. He’s just popping in. 😳 🙂🐿❤️🌈

[@cfrandre8319]

Trephination is well known in Perú-a finely chiseled cut into the skull to relieve pressure. The “fur” covered notebook of Taylor’s looks like it’s bound in llama or alpaca skin.

[@rbbb69]

Love her, and her being so compassionate and informativ ❤

[@StanCat4]

I wish they would have done a ‘face reconstruction’ - I love seeing what they likely looked like back in their time

[@tracyjones6309]

Love this series. Awesome info, enjoy the insight

[@snudder.s.m.l.5026]

Amazing job you all have done.👍💝 Love this series.. 🌹🥰

[@julietwilson2996]

Love the series ❤️❤️

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks,

[@MrRicardobarata]

In Chachapoyas, in the Leymebamba Museum, there is a collection of 200 mummies like that. It is quite impressive.😊

[@CeruleanTalon]

Really fascinating. Thank You!

[@debragarry7130]

love these documentaries

[@jonpatterson7211]

Wouldn't it be funny if they found out that two men moving the mummy around in the university banged it's head on the corner of a desk.....

[@TereRuizRodarte]

The bone had healed before death.

[@austinmiller1427]

Excellent!

[@cleverfitz779]

Dr. Fletcher is the GOAT of Egypt and any mummy. The mummy expert in Egypt is Dr. Salema Icram ( my spelling is atrocious. Good morning everyone

[@SteveC38]

Well Done!

[@rodolfoayalajr.8589]

Love ❤️ her. Thank you team for this educational video. Amen 🙏.

[@JaymesEaston]

While he was young, he had been prepared from birth to assume a role of a shaman. So twenty years could be considered a long working life, if you square it with mortality tables of the time. Cause of death seems immaterial, especially for determining social class by COD. Maybe a servant did it, or sibling. One thing that wasn't mentioned was any indication of infection in the skull. Since healing of three to four months was observed to the skull, would that rule out a wound site infection; and yet if it quickly became systemic, would some scaring present?

[@eileenlocke7877]

Interesting thank u 🙏

[@ancientsitesgirl]

Doctor Fletcher belongs to Egypt!😣

[@JaKeMaRtiN-lh3xr]

she sure does! i can listen to her talk about egypt for days❤️

[@lizharmon845]

Every time I see her picture or hear her name, I know I'm going to learn something awesome!

[@petunia2uall]

I am beyond grateful that she is able to share her passion and knowledge with us. She is fantastic!!!!

[@carriekelly5093]

me too then...

[@carriekelly5093]

except this one is about Peru... so💖

[@robertopalomino7284]

L'antico Perù e il suo viaggio nel tempo, sempre misterioso e interessante.

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

The scientist doing the research into the skin and its appearance etc, he sound very similar to that guy Bendor Grosvenor from the program Fake or Fortune. I wasn’t looking at my screen but rather I was simply listening to the program. I had to stop and check because I thought that it was him. I was a little bit confused 😳

[@cruisepaige]

Bendor is so cool!

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

@@cruisepaige indeed

[@humor86]

Lets show the damage a sling can make. But dont let anyone trained at using slingshots use it...

[@Luscitrys]

imagine having this much funding for your scientific work... These people are really lucky

[@chelseadenara590]

Love dr fletcher but I’m confused as to why the content is constantly recycled between your channels 😐 reposted or separated into different videos/ titles.

[@BriarRouge]

Money.

[@BAMA-1986]

We need more Irving finkle

[@BriarRouge]

YES. Excellent point. Also, more Salima Ikram.

[@BAMA-1986]

@@BriarRouge No, not as much

[@Weeeewriter]

I love your videos, but the only thing is, your audio is a bit too low.

[@ZeoViolet]

I took one look at that hole in the skull and thought it was a trepanning hole.

[@Denise-rj9fw]

She's impressive

[@Rafficarian]

Rope was so hard to make, it had to be a valuable asset. So why throw away a valuable item with an enemy?

[@ruthmckay9086]

Hard to make?! I wouldn't have thought it was *that* difficult.

[@loulagregg8468]

As the team all look considerably younger, this has to have been made way before this 4th of January, 2023.

[@nelpe9703]

An interesting documentatry but to much speculation "established" as facts...

[@calliemay8]

The experiment with the pigs was useless. The hole could have been from a slingshot if he slings it fast enough?? The explorer that "found" him could have had target practice. Literally nothing was proved.

[@sinnera]

at 24:00 the video gets all kinky 0__0

[@BaneHuntress]

30.25 They are trying to see if a sling shot could kill someone, maybe break their skull?... David & Goliath... hello People used these sling shots to hunt, if they couldn't hit shit, they would have starved and died... .. But I didn't know Banfield Museum actually had interesting things in it XD

[@MarvellousFaceBear]

she seemed almost desperate for the answer to be a war wound rather than anything else

[@StanCat4]

Common cause of death back in the day

[@josephhewes3923]

To be honest, they have such a small sample size (one) of cases like this, I kind of feel like they are groping in the dark, and coming to conclusions for the sole purpose of... entertainment. Disciplined scientists would never be so reckless in their pronouncements if it were not for the monetary value of the video they are producing.

[@debbylou5729]

So?

[@KimberlySays...]

I concur 100%

[@sethescope]

I mean, all science like this, where there are so few examples, is always done with a big asterisk. we come to conclusions but they're always with an implied or express "unless/until we find evidence to the contrary or that gives further context." otherwise we would never try to explain anything at all, we would just shrug at everything and say "well, it's only one mummy/artifact, who's to say what caused this?" I think your understanding of science has been too deeply informed by the """hard""" sciences and you don't know enough about how "soft" science is actually conducted. don't get me wrong, conclusions that are stated on TV/streaming programs are obviously going to be a little overdramatized, either for effect or via editing to add some pizzazz. it's TV, it's show business, etc. but that doesn't mean the underlying conclusion, based on the evidence that has been found, is somehow flawed. everyone who studies this kind of thing knows the available evidence is super limited. we just do the best we can with what we find and then adjust our understanding of events, etc, as we continue to find more

[@ArcadiaOccult]

Let's remember the Celts were in South America 2,000 years before the birth of christ!

[@myhunds8368]

Elongated skulls were not always the result of artificial cranial deformation.

[@crystalrusmisel1832]

I believe they practiced trepenation on this individual and they possibly died from it

[@Sparkey]

The hair, the oversized chaplin suit, the red cheeks....

[@BenRush]

I'm noticing a slide to sensationalism here. Please don't turn into the history channel.

[@mariehillard1742]

Pig skin is thicker than human skin!?

[@aserta]

Yes.

[@tracyjones6309]

U heard of crackling? U know pig skin?

[@debbylou5729]

Wow. Mind blown. I just realized there are hundreds of millions of Americans that have never seen a real pig. New revenue for farm zoos

[@curtiswebb8135]

No mention of trans.?

[@inhop2443]

Why would there be?

[@vhjmvn]

Anyone vaguely familiar with trepanation would have noticed the new growth around the hole and at one glance seen it for what it is. Your overly dramatic and superfluous presentation makes these videos look like a badly orchestrated show for the cameras to fill TV time, cheating the viewer with fake amateur thespians. This puts their (and many other real scientist's0 titles, real professions and places of work in great doubt and would also be a severe attack on the reputation of these actors, if they have any outside the stage. False information damaging to real science and all scientists. The end conclusion on the treatment of the body betray a total lack of knowledge of Native Americans. Of course they'd get their "strong medicine" from afar, like as the objects and herbs I was gifted by Native American holy people / priests and healers came from far away. Tobacco. e.g, is a must-have for any medic(ine man or woman).

[@meganb8012]

I definitely did not appreciate the desecration of the person’s remaining innards. He was hacking away at the deceased’s body, even while looking away while he did it. Didn’t seem respectful to me

[@crystalrusmisel1832]

Omg thank you! I was looking through these comments to see if anyone else thought about this! As soon as they said shape of the wound and that it’s showed signs of healing that was first thing popped in my head!

[@taniagarciaduenas2522]

atencion what motto is a child Alien was preserved in a lichito that the ancient Egyptians used there to embalm look at the skull there ointments ☝️🌌

[@kgspvgsp7569]

U talk about ancient egypt but keep referring to greek and roman occupied Egypt 😂😂😂😂 2 different things