Detmold child is the oldest child mummy discovered in the world

Detmold child is the oldest child mummy discovered in the world

A group of scientists in Germany succeeded in uncovering the cause of the death of "Detmold's Child", one of the most famous mummies in the world.  According to the scholars, the cause of death was due to a rare but serious heart defect.
A group of scientists and cardiologists at the North Rhine-Westphalia Center for Heart Diseases and Diabetes used a super-accurate X-ray machine to detect the cause of the death of the world's oldest infant mummy, according to officials at the Liebe State Museum in Detmold, Germany, where the mummy dating back 6,500 years is displayed.  Almost.

According to the scientists, the infant was suffering from "left heart hypoplasia syndrome", a rare congenital condition in which parts of the left side of the heart do not fully grow.  Scientists believe that the baby was 10 months old when he died.  Several years ago, the corpse was dated by radiocarbon dating back to / 4504 - 4457 / BC, which makes it twice as old as the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Left heart hypoplasia syndrome, if left untreated, leads to death in early childhood, according to Nikolaos Haas, a pediatric cardiologist at the North Rhine-Westphalian Center for Heart Disease and Diabetes.  The survival rate with modern treatment is more than 70 percent.

It is noteworthy that the mummy was originally a private donation to the Historical Museum of Witzenhausen, near the German city of Kassel, and was sent to the Lieb State Museum in Detmold for maintenance after it became full of mold, and the infant's mummy recently completed a three-year tour as part of an exhibition of world mummies in various American cities.
History
Detmold child is the name of a mummy found in Peru. The mummy has been identified to be about 6,500 years old, making it one of the oldest preserved mummies ever found,  It was named The Detmold child by its owners Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Originally the mummy was owned by the Völkerkundliches Museum (Ethnological Museum) of the city of Witzenhausen. After an affection of mould was recognised on the mummy, it was donated to Lippisches Landesmuseum (Lippe State Museum) Detmold in 1987, where it was professionally conserved. In 2010 the mummy was examined in context of the German Mummy Project and the cultural historical importance of this object was realised.
 
Originally the mummy was owned by the Völkerkundliches Museum (Ethnological Museum) of the city of Witzenhausen. After an affection of mould was recognised on the mummy, it was donated to Lippisches Landesmuseum (Lippe State Museum) Detmold in 1987, where it was professionally conserved. In 2010 the mummy was examined in context of the German Mummy Project and the cultural historical importance of this object was realised.

Physical characteristics
Officials at the Lippe State Museum in Detmold, Germany have revealed that the Detmold child died at the age of eight to nine months after suffering from a rare congenital heart malformation mostly known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a condition with parts of the left side of the heart not developing completely.[3] The syndrome combined with contracting pneumonia had led to the baby's death. The child was also discovered to have Vitamin D deficiency, and also had an abnormal, conically-shaped skull , The body had been covered by linen and buried with an amulet hung
around its neck a CT scan has revealed

The Detmold child was on exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California, along with 45 other mummies and 95 various artifacts .