Well, speaking of mummies, I will now do a documentary on mummies discovered on Tenerife Island. This is a Spanish-produced documentary with English translations and subtitles. The run time for this documentary is 57:40. The documentary is called The Secret History of the Mummies: The Guanche Mummies.
Deep within the caves of Tenerife Island, there is a world frozen in time. These are the sacred caves of a long-lost civilization. The Guanches' civilization called this island home and it is a civilization that was lost to the ages, until now. An expedition is organized to learn more about the Guanche mummies and with the aid of cutting-edge technology new insights are going to be discovered about these mummies. What will technology reveal about this civilization? The story of the Guanche civilization beginnings in the Ravine of the Dead on the Island of Tenerife and the time period is the Middle Ages. What was discovered on the island was surprising. Tenerife was inhabited and there were mummies on the island. IT was the first time that someone had found a corpse on the island. One thousand years later, this mummy is going to be examined by scientists and doctors. The corpse was naked in a high state of preservation. The National Archeological Museum in Madrid is going to take DNA samples and carbon dating samples to help date the mummy. The Tenerife Islands are part of the Canary Islands system. Not all islands deliberately created mummies, only Tenerife where there were mummies that were deliberately preserved. When the mummies were discovered, it was thought they were wood because they were so well preserved and because of their color. The mummies of the ancestors could be identified by looking at them. There was a mummy that had hair and the scientists take a sample of the hair. Between 2015 and 2020 a huge study on the Guanches’ mummies was carried out. It was the single biggest study done on a group of people on the planet. Twenty-one individuals were scanned and these studies may shed light on the human experience. The mummies are carefully transported and scanned. Then we get the story of the Gauche people, they had moved to the Canary Islands and had learned to use the sea. They were an isolated community for centuries at least until people started arriving again. Sailors rediscovered the islands and were surprised to discover that there were people on the island. Both sides were surprised. The Canary Islands were surrounded by mystery for centuries. The explorers and missionaries described those people as giants and well-built. Time had stood still on the island and the inhabitants lived in caves and stone structures on the islands. They had their own rulers and women could separate themselves from their husbands. There was plenty of food for the people. How did these people arrive in the Canary Islands? The results are coming back from mummy scans. The results are extraordinary. The Guanche mummies were mummified differently from the Egyptian mummies. Their organs remain in the mummies and their muscles are very well preserved. One scientist talks about how they are better preserved than Egyptian mummies. How did the Guanche mummies get so well preserved? There were groups of embalmers on the island and they were considered the lowest in society because they handled dead bodies. There is a good description of the mummification process for the Canary Island mummies. After the mummification process was done, they were then put into the caves, and how they were put in the caves puzzles historians and scientists. Then the discussion transitions to the condition of the mummies themselves. There was evidence of violence done to the mummies before death. There was evidence of head injuries. So what else do these scans tell about the Guanche people? What were their origins? Tune into the rest of the episode to find out more! This was a very well-done documentary; I had never heard of the Guanche Civilization and this was a good start in learning about that civilization. Overall, this was a very well-done documentary. This would be a good documentary for a history class as well as a STEM class because of the technology aspect.
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