WTF Fun Fact – Mummy Goo

Climate change is turning the world’s oldest mummies into black goo. For 7,000 years, these mummies have survived in Chile’s Atacama Desert, but humidity in the area has risen enough to cause rapid mummy decomposition. WTF Fun Facts

Source:
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2015/03/saving-chilean-mummies-climate-change


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3 thoughts on “WTF Fun Fact – Mummy Goo”

  1. UHMM, They aren’t in the desert anymore!! Maybe being in the humid building has more to do with the “black climate change goo” Just saying!

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