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A human skeleton glows through the statue's silhouette on the computed tomography scan, done in the Meander Medical Center in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
this 12th century Buddha statue was just found to be containing a mummified monk. pic.twitter.com/uZzm8La5NR— Koi Fresco (@koifresco) February 22, 2015Gastrointestinal and liver doctor Reinoud Vermeijden and radiologist Ben Heggelman examined their "oldest patient ever" in their free time, the center's website says.
The mummy is identified as the mummified body of the Buddhist master Liuquan. It's described as being one of a kind and consequently the only one available for research in the West.
仏像の中に僧侶のミイラが入っていたらしいんだけど、
CTにかける画がとてもSF的。
Robs Webstek: Buddha Statue with Mummy in Hospital http://t.co/Wh3jtDpcpD pic.twitter.com/HiOkgCRy5T — ∪s⋃℗ ₑ rₐ ▒ (⍨)⏧㌍ (@usupera) February 21, 2015They found scraps of paper with ancient Chinese characters among rotted material in places where organs used to be.
Bone material from the mummy has been taken for DNA testing. The results will be revealed in a monograph on Master Liuquan, to be published later.
The statue containing the mummy was taken for medical tests, from the Drent Museum in Assen, where it had been on display. It has since been brought to the National Museum of Natural History in Budapest, where it will stay till May 2015.
Whatever happened to "if these bones ain't a rockin', don't come a knockin'? Maybe it's an old game of 'hide and seek'? Or using the vibration of gold as a transmitter for the vibration of those bones? Sort of a human pyramid of sorts? Maybe there are more around the world in strategic locales? Just a thought.