Corpses mixed up in 'Frankenstein' mummies

Monday, July 9, 2012 - 13:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Mummies found off the coast of Scotland are Frankenstein-like composites of several corpses, researchers say. This mixing of remains was perhaps designed to combine different ancestries into a single lineage, archaeologists speculated.

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