A lithopedion (also spelled lithopaedion or lithopædion; from Ancient Greek: λίθος "stone" and Ancient Greek: παιδίον "small child, infant"), or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, [1] is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as ...

2022年1月24日 · The fetus’s mother — called the “Mysterious Lady” — is the first recorded case of an Egyptian woman who was mummified while still carrying a child. Researchers believe the woman was between 20 and 30 years-old at the time of her death. The unborn child was approximately 26 to 30 weeks into its development.

2022年1月28日 · Scientists with the Warsaw Mummy Project have determined how the fetus of the world’s only known pregnant mummy was preserved. Thanks to the combined effects of decomposition and mummification,...

2024年1月22日 · It is possible the unknown baby was mummified along with the other internal organs. During the mummification process, the diaphragm and connective tissues in that area would have dissolved, allowing for the unborn baby to move up into the chest cavity.

2016年5月12日 · Two mummified fetuses, likely 25 to 37 weeks old, were found in individual coffins within King Tut's tomb. This newly discovered mummy likely dates to between 664 and 525 B.C., according to the...

2016年5月12日 · Tutankhamun’s tomb contained two small foetuses that had been mummified and placed in individual coffins, but these infants were both significantly more developed, at about 25 weeks and 37 weeks into gestation. Very few other examples of burials of miscarried babies have so far been identified from ancient Egypt.

2022年1月27日 · Researchers studying the remains of what they believe to be a fetus found inside a pregnant mummy from ancient Egypt say the developing infant was slowly "pickled like an egg" over centuries as...

2022年1月24日 · In 2021, archeologists revealed a so-called "incredible first," specifically the finding of a mummified fetus preserved inside its mummified primeval Egyptian mother's abdomen.

the developing young in the uterus, specifically the unborn offspring in the postembryonic period, which in humans is from the third month after fertilization until birth. See also embryo . The stages of growth of the fetus are fairly well defined.

2016年5月13日 · The youngest mummified human fetus from ancient Egypt to date has been unearthed in an archeological discovery, showing the preciousness of the unborn child at that time, according to British...