Qilakitsoq is an abandoned settlement and an important archaeological site in Greenland. It became known as the discovery location of eight mummified corpses from the Thule period. The Inuit mummies of Qilakitsoq offer important insights into the lives of Inuit about 500 years ago.

2018年9月26日 · The Qilakitsoq mummies are the oldest preserved remains in Greenland. Archaeologists discovered them 1972, close to the site of a small Inuit settlement on the western Nuussuaq peninsula, about 450 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle.

2019年12月7日 · The skin, fingernails, hair, and even eyebrows of the six adults and two young Inuits are plainly visible. They came to be known as the Qilakitsoq mummies for the abandoned Inuit settlement in which they were discovered, on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in northwestern Greenland. The mummies were likely simple farmers and their mummification accidental.

The Qilakitsoq mummies are probably one of Greenland’s most famous treasures, and they are tucked away in a corner of Greenland National Museum & Archives. In this video, Deputy Director of the National Museum, Bo Albrechtsen, introduces the Greenland mummies that were found north of Disko Bay in the Uummannaq region.

2019年9月26日 · These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America. Qilakitsoq mummies at the Greenland National Museum. The infant mummy discovered at the...

2013年9月22日 · The Qilakitsoq mummies are the oldest preserved remains in Greenland. They were found in 1972, close to the site of a small Inuit settlement on the western Nuussuaq peninsula, about 450 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle.

2016年4月19日 · They found some very well-preserved mummies in a shallow cave under a rock outcrop. The site is a few hundred metres from the settlement of Qilakitsoq which lies on the Nuussuaq Peninsular near Uummannaq. At first, the grouse hunters did not realize what they had found in the two graves.

You can experience the fascinating, well-preserved clothing discovered with eight mummies in two graves at the Qilakitsoq settlement in northwest Greenland. Four of the mummies can be seen in a separate room in the Qilakitsoq exhibition, the mummies represent individual stories of life, death, faith and society in the past.

The Qilakitsoq mummies are the oldest preserved remains in Greenland and were discovered in 1972 by two brothers who were hiking in the area and became curious about a stack of rocks. A 6 month old Inuit baby, a two-year-old boy, and six women of …

The Qilakitsoq mummies from the Uummannaq area in Northwest Greenland have been dated to 1475. Two stone-covered graves with mummified bodies were found by hunters in 1972, and in 1978 the Greenland National Museum excavated eight buried people – six women and two children aged around six months and four years.