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from the I-wonder-if-she-regrets-anything dept.
Scientists in the Swiss city of Basel have solved a decades-old mystery over the identity of a mummified woman.
Their research revealed a surprise: the woman is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
The body was uncovered in 1975 while renovations were being done on Basel's Barfüsser Church.
[...] There was no gravestone to indicate her identity, but initial testing of her wooden coffin suggested it dated from the 16th Century.
Another clue: her body was riddled with mercury - a standard treatment for syphilis from the late 15th to the 19th Century. Highly toxic mercury treatment was more often a kill than a cure and it was this that preserved her body.
The story continues to explain how scientists using historical records and DNA testing have managed to ascertain (with 99.8% probability) that the mummy was "none other than Anna Catharina Bischoff. Born in Basel in 1719, she died there in 1787." The Bischoffs are a well-established and prominent family in the Basel region.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday January 28 2018, @04:45AM (1 child)
while the mummy was backed in black, but before it hit the stage?
My bad, thinking Brian, not Boris.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday January 28 2018, @06:23PM
Boris Johnson did indeed [nocookie.net] play in many rock bands [highway81revisited.com] before he settled into a career in politics.
True Boris fans are aware that he also played one of the leading roles [unisci24.com] in the movie Dumb and Dumber.