Atacama skeleton

Atacama humanoid (short- Ata ) is a native of the South American Atacama desert mummy with a length of fifteen centimeters.

Representations

The Mummy named Atacama humanoid was found in 2003 by Oscar Muñoz in 56 km from the Chilean city of Iquique at La Noria in the Atacama desert. The current owner of the Mummy is the Spanish businessman Ramon Navia - Osorio.

In the produced by Steven M. Greer and on April 22, 2013 for the first time presented documentary Sirius, the thesis is situated in the Atacama humanoid there could be an extraterrestrial creatures.

The microbiologist Garry Nolan of Stanford University has studied the DNA of the masculine mummy. In his DNA analysis - it is not yet published - Nolan comes to the conclusion that 91 % of the material coincide with a recent human genome.

Radiographs of the growth plate in the skeleton suggest a life time of six to eight years. Because of the unusual smallness of the mummy, two explanations are:

In the case of progeria paleoanthropologist William Jungers of Stony Brook University assumes that this disease had affected the fetus, resulting in a miscarriage caused.

Discovery and commercialization

The mummy was discovered in the vicinity of the Church of the ghost town of La Noria, in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It reported the Finder Oscar Muñoz with a certain degree of fuzziness of the local press and on regional television. Since it is a corpse, thus comes as a possible location of the nearby cemetery in question, on the already common graves were opened in search of valuables. As a fund date was - also quite vague - the winter of 2003 specified. After the seasons in the Southern Hemisphere, this corresponds to a period from June to September.

According to the company was the finder with pick and shovel on the search when he found the little body wrapped in a white cloth. It was tied with a purple ribbon. The Fund, he showed others like it were on the road. On this occasion, the first photo of Alejandro Davalos was taken of this to the so-called UFO research group Chile (Spanish: Agrupación de Investigaciones de Chile Ovniológicas ) passed on. A few days after the discovery of the mummy (then around 37 € ) is for 30,000 pesos to a restaurateur in Iquique, which Finder otherwise also sold his finds.

The first paper on the discovery was published on 9 October 2003 in the daily newspaper El Mercurio de Antofagasta. At this time, the mummy was in the possession of a collector who declined to be named. On October 19, 2003, a second, more detailed report followed in the local newspaper La Estrella de Iquique. Photos were offered at prices of 630 € for one, and 950 € for two. Supposedly € 100,000 were offered for the mummy. The biologist Walter Seinfeld from Universidad Arturo Prat was interviewed by the local press to the Fund. Because of the photos submitted to him, he identified the mummy as a human. He pointed out that it was in this object is a corpse and called the owners surrendered him.

Thus, the discovery of the mummy was the result of a spread in the region of grave robbing. It is not known when and how the mummy leave Chile. Supposedly, the Spaniard has in its possession bought it in Barcelona and again she emerged from the restaurateurs from Iquique. There are rumors that at the same time a second mummy to have been found.