Bizarre Archaeological Finds That Still Baffle Scientists Today

Mummified Lung

When you find a whole mummified body, that's pretty creepy on its own—but when you find a singular mummified lung within an otherwise completely decomposed skeleton, that's when you might want to start getting a little concerned. Archaeologists opened a sarcophagus in the Basilica of St. Denis in Paris in 1959. There is no reason that this mummy exists, and nobody knows how the single lung was mummified, although it is assumed that it happened while the subject was still alive. 

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