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I would love for somebody to tell me that it's conventional and has a purely prosaic answer.
Because then I can go on to the next thing.
The whole reason for getting that – the Atacama mummy off the table was not because I wanted to annoy anybody.
It was because it was spectacular.
It's obviously something people would pay attention to.
So if it's real, let's do it.
If it's not, let's get it off the table because it's usually the stuff that's hidden under the –
That's the most interesting.
Well, certainly she had – we brought in an expert in South American indigenous people genetics.
And the analysis showed that the genetic – the standard genetic mutations that are found in different racial groups around the world –
matched exactly the Atacama region of Chile.
So her parents, her relatives were clearly Chilean.
So yeah, I mean, that's really all you can say.
If someone wants to say that she's an alien, well, that's fine.
I'm convinced of what she is and that she deserves a proper burial.
So, you know, I think people have conflated a lot of the different mummies that are out there, first of all.
There's like 60 of them or something.
And probably a fair number of them, I wouldn't necessarily call them hoaxes.
I would say that they are constructed.
But they're old constructs.