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A "mermaid" Mummy, A maya City and a Missing piece of the Dead Sea scrolls: 11 stunning Historical finds from 2022 In 18th-century Japan, many people prayed to this "mermaid" mummy, believing it could grant them immortality. Allegedly caught in the Pacific Ocean, the specimen measures just a foot long, but many thought that the upper half resembled that of a human being, while the lower half looked like that of a fish, complete with scales. Since mermaids have an important place in traditional Japanese folklore — and supposedly promise everlasting life to any person who eats a mermaid's flesh — it's little wonder why so many were transfixed by this mysterious mummified creature centuries ago. However, skeptics were convinced that it was simply an unusual sea creature or perhaps even a monkey and a fish sewn together. But hundreds of years later, as scientists are now starting to study this bizarre specimen, we might finally learn the truth. ⁠ ⁠ Visit the lin...