01/14/2025
In the winter of 1993, miners at the Chehrabad Salt Mine in Iran made a remarkable discovery while bulldozing salt. They uncovered a body with long hair, a beard, and several artifacts. Among the items found were a lower leg inside a leather boot, three iron knives, a woolen half-trouser, a silver needle, a sling, parts of a leather rope, a grindstone, a walnut, pottery shards, fragments of patterned textiles, and broken bones. The body was buried deep inside a tunnel about 45 meters long.
In 2004, another mummy was discovered just 50 feet away, followed by a third in 2005, and later that same year, the remains of a teenage boy. The oldest of these “salt men” was carbon-dated to 955 BCE, making it truly ancient.
These “salt men” are ancient corpses that were either killed or crushed in the cave and naturally mummified by the harsh, salty conditions. The dry salinity of the mine preserved not only hair, flesh, and bone but also internal organs, including stomachs and colons, in remarkable detail.
