At a temple in Asakuchi City, Okayama Prefecture, a dried-up mummy with the higher physique of a monkey and the decrease physique of a fish that resembles a mermaid is fastidiously preserved.
A analysis group at a college or different establishment investigated the mermaid’s true identification and located that it was not an actual mermaid, however a human-made one across the nineteenth century.
According to this, it was confirmed that the higher physique is manufactured from paper and material with no cranium or ribs, and the decrease physique is scale-shaped, which is a attribute of the croaker fish that inhabits the coasts of Japan.
The scales had been measured utilizing “radiocarbon”, which decreases over time, and had been estimated to be from the late 1800s.
A folklore evaluation was additionally carried out, and the analysis group concluded that it was artificially created across the nineteenth century as a spectacle, not an object of worship, after which introduced into the temple.
Professor Takashi Kato of the Faculty of Life Sciences, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, stated, “Multiple ‘mermaid mummies’ have been found in Japan and overseas, but little scientific research has been conducted. By conducting similar research and comparing it, it would be good if it led to the clarification of the creators who were not understood this time.”
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