Mummies have provided a lot of important information about our own past, the living conditions and the situation we found ourselves in at certain times. But some mummies also stood out for their interest. For example, last year the world’s first pregnant mummy had been discovered.

While work on the mummies was in progress, today a very unusual news came from Austria. Concerns a boy up to 2 years old The mummy showed that the child died from some other cause, completely independent of starvation or injury.

The lifestyle of the European nobility may have caused the boy’s death:

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Boy found in Starhemberg dynasty family grave several deformities in his ribs found it. Scientists have cited this as the most likely cause. Vitamin D deficiency evaluated.

Caused by vitamin D deficiency ricketscausing the bones to weaken and bend. However, in this case, the children’s leg bones were seen to be warped. But according to scientists, there was no other reason to explain this situation.

Of course, the boy’s death was not only due to rickets. A deadly disease in the child’s lungs that can again be caused by vitamin D deficiency. pneumonia (pneumonia) symptoms found it.

So how did the child become deficient in vitamin D?

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The boy’s mummy also provided new clues about his noble life in Austria and Europe. Aristocrats in the 16th to 17th centuries, to which the mummy belongs, they kept away from the sun to keep their skin as white as possible. Only the peasants and workers went to the sun.