秘魯發現巨頭木乃伊

giant-headed mummy found in Peru
秘魯發現巨頭木乃伊
2011-11-20

秘魯發現巨人木乃伊
Giant Mummy Discovered in Peru
Translation by Autumnson Blog

Peruvian researchers are puzzled on Friday over an oddly formed mummy found recently in the Cuzco region, the heart of Incan civilization.
秘魯的研究人員週五就一件怪異形成的木乃伊感到困惑，它最近發現在印加文明的核心庫斯科地區。
The mummy now sits in the Ritos Andinos Museum in Andahuaylillas, some 685 miles southeast of Lima.
木乃伊現在坐落在Andahuaylillas的Ritos Andinos博物館，在首都利馬東南約685英里。
Here, anthropologist Renata Davila explained some of the strange features of the mummy.
在這裡，一名人類學家雷納托·達維拉解釋一些木乃伊的奇怪特徵。
[Renato Davila, Director, Ritos Andinos Museum]:
[Ritos Andinos博物館主任雷納托·達維拉]：
"It's 20 inches tall, which doesn't coincide with the stereotypes of humans. It's head is triangular and the eye cavities are too big.”
“它是20英寸高，這與人類的刻板印象不相符；它的頭是三角形及眼窩太大。”
Davila also pointed to a strange flange on the jaw and the development of teeth that don't match the mummy's apparent age.
達維拉亦指出在上頜骨的奇怪凸緣，和牙齒的發展不符合木乃伊的表面年齡。

[Renato Davila, Director, Ritos Andinos Museum]:
"The lower front part of the jaw has a kind of fin that doesn't exist in any ethnicity in the world. The opening at the top of the head also calls for attention, and it has wisdom teeth and molars that also don't coincide with any human being.”
“下巴的前下方有一種類的鰭，不存在於世界上任何種族，打開頭頂也引人注意，它有與任何人類不相吻合的智慧齒和磨牙。“
Back in Lima, anthropologist Pablo Bayabar attempted to put together the pieces of the malformed mummy.
回到利馬，人類學家帕布洛Bayabar試圖將畸形木乃伊的件塊砌在一起。

[Pablo Bayabar, Anthropologist]:
[巴勃羅Bayabar，人類學家]：
"Children's heads are proportionally bigger than their bodies. Here we have two points. First, the fontanelle is open, which usually closes at 31 months. And it has molars that usually appears between approximately 13 and 19 months. So we are looking at a child under two years old with an enormous head.”
“兒童的頭部比例上比他們的身體大，在這我們有兩點。首先，囟門是開放的，它通常在31個月關閉。而且它有磨牙，通常約在13至19個月之間出現。因此依我們看是一個有巨大頭部的兩歲以下孩童。“
He said it could have been a human sacrifice to placate gods during times when the Incans felt threatened.
他說，它可能曾是一項人類獻祭，在印加人感到威脅的時代來平息眾神。

[Pablo Bayabar, Anthropologist]:
"This is possibly a human sacrifice, common during Pre-Incan and Incan times. Historians have written for example that during the times of the famous 'capacocha'—situations where the Incans died or could have died—they sacrificed children in the areas close to large mountains to honor the mountains.”

Researchers will continue to study the strange mummy.

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