Do you like ancient bones and mummies?

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I always loved ancient bones and mummies ever since I was little, I would keep looking at its picture and imagining the creature's life I feel like its a story of the creatures life, I feel similar to any other fossile but I love bones and mummies mostly

Yes, I totally love mummies, and stuff. I feel the same way YOU do about them, in that I wonder what their life was like, etc. The other day, I watched a documentary on PBS (I'm a PBS junkie!! LOL) about the Egyptian Pharaohs----it was BEYOND COOL!! ! When they do these types of documentaries, they re-inact how the person would've been. Another one I watched was about a king's skeleton that had a curved spine, and they actually found someone, in present day, that had his disorder, to re-inact all the stuff the king supposedly did.

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So do you ever work with bones, or can you get better information from the other stuff you find?

I really really wanted to be an archaeologist when I grew up... I love excavating old bones. Just the other day I was digging in my parent's yard and I found a rabbit skeleton. It's in a box in my garage right now. I'm so fascinating with ancient culture and their stories, what they did, everything. I wish I had a time machine just so I could go back in time, invisible, and just observe.

Yes, they're delicious.

Indeed. How can we resist, when they lay the mummies out on those big slabs just like a buffet? Mmmm.

I love that stuff.

I love watching those documentaries especially the national geographic ones they make it seem so real like I also love watching about giants and their mummies
I think the pharaoh you're talking about is tutankhamun maybe, I remember being so obssessed about him and thutmose III and some other pharaos lol
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I also love to wonder from where and which ancestor and which geographic area did my physical features evolve from and how, I feel like I'm having something ancient in me hahaha I love having ancient DNA in me lol
I also love eating ancient food I imagine it being cooked by someone who lived in that era where it was derieved lol
I also like meat, fish and chicken so much because I feel like I'm eating something ancient, if I was eating a fish I would be tracing the fish I'm eating to its earliest ancestors and thinking I'm eating that fish's prehistoric ancestor lol

Skeletons and bones scared the crap out of me as a kid and while I'm a bit better with it now I still don't like them.

Would have loved to have been an archeologist except for that very reason (never sure what, or who, you might dig up).

I'm not necessarily fascinated by the bones themselves, but I was always into dinosaurs and other prehistoric fauna as a child. When I visited the Berlin museum of Natural History for the first time in 2009, especially seeing the huge Brachiosaurus skeleton and the fossil of Archaeopteryx, it was like a dream come true, it was magic.

When I was a kid I remember finding chicken bones someone left in the playhouse and feeling so happy about it, I really felt like I found dinosaur bones that moment hahaha but then the few next times I went to play there I didn't find it lol

I like history in general, but archeology is a favorite part. I am also fascinated by the untold stories and the hints these things give us.

I have and they both provide unique data sets. Both are crucial. If both are found its a *really* good day.

From bones you can get information on sex, age, some of the life history (aka medical stuff... diseases, lifestyle,etc) which is something most people are familiar with if you watch Bones on TV or other CSI type shows....but the reality is they tell us an insane amount more than just what you see in the shows. For example if you took a trip to the other side of the planet and somehow died there... and I found your femur several hundred years from now... with current tech I have a good chance of being able to tell where you grew up in the planet because your bones will have strontium you drank in the water during your lifetime ..and strontium has a unique signature that can be traced to specific areas of the world. That sort of thing aside from 'the usual' .

'Other stuff' can be tools, clothing, equipment, daily life utensils, etc. that are left behind. Even fecal matter and garbage. All of it can be exhaustively tested to yield information...sometimes you will see dozens of completely different research papers taking years to write and publish being made out of a single, little artifact.

One of the coolest 'other stuff' data that i've seen was how by studying the orientation of all graves (a thousand years old) in a particular location and tabulating the number of babies and young child-bearing age female remains were found in the graveyard over a period of several hundred years coupled with some historical and cultural research a team in Egypt learned that the locals had a fertility festival at X month of the year which resulted in a much larger than normal amount of women getting pregnant..and sadly dying in childbirth because 9 months later was the year's worst season for crops and the population's food supply was almost always low. Also found was lots of honey containers with the child graves.... which was probably the cause of their deaths. You don't give honey to infants for a reason: Botulinum is found in honey and its like like giving babies rat poison.

... this festival exists to this day in an adopted form. Its called Valentines day.



Thats adorable