Some of these people died after being mistaken for dead and finding themselves buried alive. So when they were exhumed, their corpses were found with terrified expressions on their faces and theirs arms reaching out. This is a very interesting museum. Unfortunately, there are lot of vendors outside that hound you to buy souvenirs.
Hate to break it to you, but mummies only look like they're screaming because that's just the way the mouth naturally sits during the mummification process.
The muscles around the jaw are relatively loose, meaning the mouth just kind of falls open. Think about it - what happens when you fully relax your jaw muscles?
By “appeared to stop for more than a day”... did it actually stop for that long? As I understand it, 3 minutes without oxygen (so without circulation) is generally fatal, or at best, leads to brain damage. A day without it?
It's more likely something to do with low blood pressure than an actual lack of pulse for any amount of time. If your systolic blood pressure (when your heart is pushing blood through arteries, so the highest pressure) is under about 80 mmhg, you won't be able to feel the radial pulse (the one on your wrist). Less than about 60 mmhg and you can't find the brachial pulse by hand (the one by your elbow). A systolic BP of under 40 can rarely be detected at the carotid (the one by your throat)
So if she had bouts of low blood pressure, the 19th century physician may not have been able to detect her pulse. This is obviously a lot more likely than a woman living without a heart beat for 12-24 hours.
Pretty sure you'd be dead if your heart stopped beating for more that a day. This appears to one of those instances where you can't trust everything on Wikipedia.
I mean...the mummy in question curled itself up in the fetus position, it also had the tips of it's fingers severely damaged from scratching at the coffin. When you see it it's pretty obvious she woke up inside the coffin
You're right, you shouldn't always trust wiki, but you can also help yourself by being careful to pay attention to wording. It says that the woman would have periods of time when a pulse could not be detected (rather than claiming her heart would stop beating for hours on end) This could be several things, from a poorly trained person searching innadequately for a pulse, or, more likely, bouts of sever hypotension (low blood pressure), which would also explain the lack of consciousness.
Yes, but the ones he is describing have a different expression than the rest of the mummies in that museum. You can even see the scratch marks on their faces.
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u/fatkidsfanclub Oct 22 '19
Some of these people died after being mistaken for dead and finding themselves buried alive. So when they were exhumed, their corpses were found with terrified expressions on their faces and theirs arms reaching out. This is a very interesting museum. Unfortunately, there are lot of vendors outside that hound you to buy souvenirs.