RDP Daily Prompt: FUTURISTIC
When some of us think of futuristic things like time machines, our thoughts may go here:
Even though I love Doctor Who I love the works of HG Wells and I get the vision and the stories that they tell, when I think of time travelers I think of mummies.
Three mummies fom the museum’s collection. From left to right: Irtieru a man, 35 to 45 years (1,71 m ± 4 cm), from the Third Intermediate Period 1.070 – 664 AC — 2.800 years; Pabasa a man 40 to 50 years (1,62 m ± 4 cm) from the Late period 663 – 323 AC – 2.500; Sukhetsahor* (*most probable name, not certain) a man 51 to 60 years (1.66 m +/- 4 cm).from the Initial Ptolemaic period, Akmin 250-200 B.C. (2.200 years).
These time travelers aren’t works of fiction, they aren’t characters in a movie. They are real. They existed in our past. They exist ( in a modified form, I suppose ) in our present. Ensconced in their glass and wooden capsules and wrappings they will continue journey their into our future.
Their tongues may be silent, their hearts may be still but that won’t stop them from telling their stories.
Discovered at the border of Chile and Argentina by scientists in 1999, the 500-year-old Inca girl known as the Llullaillaco Maiden was is one of three Inca children who were sacrificed as part of a practice known as capacocha or qhapaq hucha.
Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920)-
Photographer Unknown- Photo taken 2012
Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920)was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, one week before her second birthday. Rosalia’s father, Mario Lombardo, grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia, an embalmer, to preserve her remains Sometimes called “Sleeping Beauty”, hers was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily. Photographer Unknown
Photo By A.M. Moscoso
” Sylvester “
Ye Old Curiosity Shoppe
Seattle Washington
For years, the general belief has been that Sylvester was the victim of a late 19th-century shooting in the Arizona desert, and that the extreme dryness of the desert naturally mummified the body. However, CT scans in 2001, 2005 and an MRI in 2005 suggest an embalmer injected an arsenic-based fluid shortly after death. The body is one of the best-preserved mummies known. Newly published information and a photograph from 1892 indicate that “Sylvester,” originally named “McGinty,” belonged to confidence man “Soapy” Smith until he sold it in 1895 in Hillyard, Washington.
“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.”
“Quote from Doctor Who- Episode 10 of season 3, “Blink,”
It’s impressive how these managed to survive the time. It look like they’re sleeping.
Science and nature played a big part in preservation, but each are unique in their own way and there really is a story in there for anyone who looks.