木乃伊竟可懷孕

美國《世界新聞周刊》報道，埃及國家考古學院一批研究員，今年三月在開羅發掘出一具已逝世超過三千年的經防腐處理女木乃伊。但該學院負責人塞爾德最近獲得一個驚人發現，證實這具木乃伊竟在被掘後懷孕，至今其腹中塊肉看來已有八個月，經超音波檢查後得出胎兒常成長。

該學院看守人西塔爾被指是胎兒的父親，而他亦承認自己難以抗拒女木乃伊的美色，不禁對她表達愛意。

這個估計將在不足兩個月後臨盆的木乃伊，現時存放在學院內。

塞爾德表示，他們從未想過木乃伊竟可懷孕，但事實卻又發展到如此不可思議的地步。

以塞爾德為首的研究員肯定，這具女木乃伊在被發現時沒有懷孕的跡象，他們安排了西塔爾負責看守她。西塔爾坦承，這具女木乃伊對他產生一股難以抗拒的吸引 力，是他心目中的可愛美人。為此，西塔爾竟向木乃伊表達愛意，並覺得她對其愛的呼喚作出回應。據報，西塔爾把她稱呼為「親愛的木乃伊」。學院已暫停西塔爾 的職務，展開詳盡調查。

根據塞爾德的分析，這具女木乃伊應當生存於公元前一二零六年至公元前九二四年的時代，仍然存有皮膚、肌肉組織和血管。

English Version

The headlines announce: "3000-year-old mummy to be a mommy! Sonograms reveal a faint heartbeat of unborn child in mummy's womb, say doctors." 

The story goes on to report (datelined Cairo) that Dr. Anwar Said of the National Academy of Archaeology dug up the mummy last March. At the time, according to Said, the female mummy was not pregnant. Dr. Said told the WWN reporter that the mummy "appears to be about 24-years-old and from a high social order, perhaps royalty or a favored concubine. We cannot determine exactly who she was, and how she died, or why she was preserved so remarkably."

Apparently, a custodian at the National Academy of Archaeology fell in love with the mummy ("mummy dearest," the article says) and she became pregnant. The fetus "appears to be eight months old and in perfect health." (Stupid Question #1: If the mummy wasn't pregnant in March...how could the fetus be 8 months old now at the beginning of October?)

How could a mummy become a mummy? Dr. Said theorized that "perhaps the mysterious liquid which preserved the mother so remarkably is connected with the amniotic fluid sustaining the baby."

What is truly remarkable is that the National Academy of Archaeology recently built a delivery room (Stupid Question #2: Will an archaeologist perform the delivery? Stupid Question #3: Do they expect more mummified mummies to be delivered and therefore need a delivery room?).

Finally, Dr. Said noted that the female mummy was buried with her favorite objects including a silver baby rattle. "It's as if the mummy knew she was destined to be a mommy some day," Dr. Said concluded. "It may be happening 3000 years late, but it is happening. Too bad she won't be alive to witness this unbelievable miracle."

Do you see more than a little similarity (except for the doctored abdomen of the pregnant mummy) between the two photos? King Sethos (sometimes called Seti) I is one of the best preserved royal mummies ever found in Egypt, and the first king to have his palms laid flat against his chest. He lived during the 19th Dynasty (his tomb was robbed, his mummy damaged, but was later repaired during the 21st Dynasty). Clearly the female mummy is actually Sethos I, who now resides in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Could the King be pregnant? Perhaps...if it would sell more tabloids.

You know better than to be fooled by the WWN. Could a dead person conceive a child? Absolutely not. On the other hand, a number of pregnant mummies have been found (they may well have died during child birth or of complications during the pregnancy)...but sonograms have not revealed any beating hearts! 














Florance Khoo: I dono which 1 is true, but I think the English version is more reliable as it sounds more logic. lol.