The Ancient Egyptians didn't simply embalm their dead human precursors, they likewise preserved creatures - in their millions.
It's conceivable up to 70 million creatures were embalmed and afterward covered in underground sepulchers at more than thirty locales across Egypt.
At the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital a group of radiographers and Egyptologists from the Center for Biomedical Egyptology at Manchester Hospital have been utilizing the most recent clinical imaging innovation to filter many creature mummies, taken out from Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth hundreds of years.
It's the greatest review of its sort ever.
More than three evenings in Autumn 2014, Horizon recorded around twelve of these sweeps which have made the spine for a narrative that recounts the peculiar story of the unusual job creatures played in antiquated Egyptian conviction.
Dr Lidija McKnight lead the Manchester group of Radiographers and Egyptologists. They utilized a CT Scanner and X-beam machine, that would ordinarily be utilized on kids, to see underneath the wrappings without harming the old examples inside.
Flaky astonishment
The group filtered a wide range of kinds of creature mummies from swimming birds and hawks to felines and wenches and surprisingly a five foot long Nile crocodile.
The group got an unexpected when they found that a crocodile formed mummy contained one crocodile as well as eight child crocs painstakingly wrapped together.
The filtering wasn't not difficult to film as each sensitive mummy should have been dealt with as little as could really be expected and we quit recording when a crisis human patient expected to utilize the scanner (which happened a couple of times).
Yet, the last output the group did was maybe the most fascinating. The outside of the mummy was formed like a feline, with small ears and a nose, however the outputs uncovered something that had stayed covered up since it was made millennia prior, a couple of bits of feline bone were inside the wrappings.
Lidija clarified around 33% of the creature mummies she filtered contained fractional remaining parts or even looked totally vacant.
The motivation behind why is fervently discussed, a few specialists propose creature mummies were being made to be offered to Egyptian pioneers thus the old embalmers could make more benefit by selling "counterfeit" mummies, others like Lidija accept its proof the antiquated embalmers thought about even the littlest pieces of the creatures to be hallowed to went to the same amount of endeavors to preserve them accurately.
Just as our UK shooting, we made a trip to Egypt to visit the antiquated underground burial places where large numbers of these creature mummies were found.
Desert burial ground
Saqqara is an old Egyptian sanctuary complex around an hour's drive from Cairo where a large number of creature mummies are as yet covered.
We shot atomic researcher Sally Wasef from Griffith University, Australia as she scrambled down a thin twelve meter shaft into an underground tomb loaded up with the antiquated preserved remaining parts of swimming birds called Ibis.
Sally gathered examples of bones from the mummies so she could concentrate and think about their DNA, assisting her with understanding whether they had been seriously cultivated.
We additionally followed Dr Paul Nicholson from Cardiff University, who's been planning and unearthing the Saqqara site for more than 20 years.
Paul took us profound under the desert to investigate an organization of burial places where up to 8,000,000 embalmed canines had been covered.
Egyptologist Professor Salima Ikram from the American University in Cairo has considered these embalmed canines and showed us how their bones contained proof they were reproduced and afterward killed to be preserved.
Indeed at one time, animal mummification was such an enormous industry in Ancient Egypt that creatures were seriously reproduced in their millions to fulfill what had become a public fixation on creature embalmment.
Skyline - 70 Million Animal Mummies: Egypt's Dark Secret, will air on BBC 2 on Monday 11 May at 2100.
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