Franklin mummies

1. Franklin Expedition
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2. Franklin Expedition Voyage
● The famous lost voyage named
the Franklin expedition
● led by John Franklin in 1845
● This disappearance is one of
the greatest mysteries in the
history
● Approximately 140 years later
the explor found the mummies
of three of them
● Franklin also had 129 crew
members

3. Why they became mummies?
● There body were recovered from
Beechy island,which is located in
Canada
● They walked to find food for their
friends
● The ship had hit ice and they
attempted to walk across 100 miles
● Because of the intense cold they had
turned to mummies

4. ● Three franklin sailors early casualties ,not enough
food to sustain them , starved to death
● Actually, became famous in death rather
than life
● Pneumonia and Tuberculosis primary causes of death
● Emaciated appearance of the body and the absence
of calluses
The life and death
● Parks Canada released this statement: The
discovery of HMS Terror would be important for
Canada, reflecting the ongoing and valuable role of
Inuit traditional knowledge in the search and making
a significant contribution to completing the Franklin
story.

5. LiDAR Technology
In this case, used to map out areas after the
archaeological discovery of artifacts from the
Franklin ships on land
Advanced technologies used to study Franklin
expedition
Notman, university of Alberta, Canada
used radiographic investigation to study two
frozen sailors from the Franklin expedition ,
X-ray images of the two sailors with the
results that found at the autopsy
Radiographic and X-ray

7. References
http://www.macleans.ca/society/face-to-face-with-a-franklin-crew-member-140-years-later/
https://owlcation.com/humanities/johntorrington
https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/FRANKLIN-EXPEDITION-MUMMIES-Mummies-Bodies-Talk
https://owlcation.com/humanities/johntorrington
https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/FRANKLIN-EXPEDITION-MUMMIES-Mummies-Bodies-Talk
http://www.macleans.ca/society/face-to-face-with-a-franklin-crew-member-140-years-later/
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/franklin/franklin.html