Libyan mummy
For us, and perhaps for the whole world, mummification remained a purely Egyptian affair, and Libya remained a region of cultural vacuum for Libyans in particular, despite the enormous and diverse cultural reserve that the Libyan sands hid from us for thousands of years.
In the last decades of Libya's long life, the amazing archive that Libya had hidden in its memory began to reveal to the world, not for us but for many researchers and scholars.
After the prehistoric paintings dating back ten thousand years, which were drawn on the walls of the caves of southern Libya by painters who lived here and transferred their lives and knowledge through those paintings, the biggest surprise “The Libyan Mummy” appears to us in all its details...
“Wan Mohjaj” is the name given by scientists to this mummy. It does not belong to a king, a prince, or a military commander, but rather to a young child no more than three years old, as research and analysis indicate. He was embalmed in an elaborate manner, preserving his body intact for thousands of years.
The mummy was found in Wadi Wan Mohejaj, which is the name that scientists gave to this mummy in reference to this place in the Akakus Mountains in southern Libya before.
︎ The great Italian scientist “Fabrizio Mori” Forty years ago, the mummy was buried in a rocky cavity in a cave and was hidden in a bag of deer skin and covered with plant leaves. From the moment of discovery, the journey of searching for mummification in Libya began.Through “the use of radiocarbon analysis technology, it led to determining the age of the mummy between (5400 to 5600) years.”
This discovery confirms to archaeologists that mummification took place in Libya, given that the history of the mummy precedes by about (1500) years the time of mummification recorded in the ancient Egyptian civilization, whose beginnings date back to (2250 - 2750) BC, which prompted scientists to reconsider the prevailing belief that mummification occurred on the African continent. It began in Egypt, and a new hypothesis was proposed that suggested that it came from one of the unknown previous civilizations that arose in Libya over a period of 20,000 years.
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George Mueller also says:
“There was no mummification before the arrival of the tahnu and tamhu “al-Shaqar” to Egypt, so mummification is a Libyan invention.”
George Müller adds in another article entitled: “The Egyptians and Their Libyan Neighbors”: “The Tahnu are the first ancestors of the first dynasty, and they are from the first days in the history of Egypt.”
This discovery is not the first of its kind in Libya
A second mummy was discovered in 2008, 1.8 meters long, by a joint Libyan-British archaeological mission.
Led by the English scientist David Mattingly
On the slopes of Mount Zenkara, south of the Garma area in the city of Ubari, the mummy was found, which is estimated to be 7,000 years old, in the kneeling position that the Libyans practiced in burying their dead, which can be considered the greatest evidence that the ancient Libyans were the ones who discovered the mummification of the dead on the African continent.
A third mummy has been discovered
He called her the mummy of the baby girl of Jagaboob, where he started
A team from the Department of Antiquities, headed by Professor Enweji Al-Arfi, Professor Anas Boulajaib, members of the Antiquities Office in Jaghbub, and researchers Rabih Al-Faydi and Idriss Touati.
Works to protect and preserve the cemetery of mummies in Jaghbub. The cemetery includes four cemeteries, containing more than (200) graves. The mummy of a young girl was discovered inside the site. Her burial dates back to (1800) years ago. Funerary furniture was found with her, containing an awl necklace, and it is currently located in a museum. The Red Serail in Tripoli..
Upon reviewing all the results, a scientific archaeological team concluded that the discovery of the black mummy known as Wan_Mohi_Gaj shows that the history of mummification in Libya preceded mummification among the Pharaohs in Egypt...
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