Around 5020 BC in the Atacama Desert, a person sat down and has not moved since Preserved by one of Earth’s driest climates, the body has retained centuries-old skin, hair and clothing. This is an example of a Chinchorro mummy, discovered in early 20th Century.

Remarkable Pic Shows 7,000-Year-Old Preserved Human Corpse?

A social media post claimed that the corpse’s skin, hair and clothing were still intact.

A pH๏τograph authentically shows a corpse that had been preserved in Chile’s Atacama Desert since 5020 B.C.E. Remnants of hair, skin and clothing were still intact at the time the pH๏τo was taken.

Seated in an apparent cross-legged position were the preserved, 7,000-year-old remains of a person discovered in the 21st century with skin, hair, and fragments of clothing still intact. At least, that’s according to a widely circulated pH๏τo shared on X on Sept. 7, 2023, that, at the time of publication, had received more than 157,000 views:

As eerie as it appeared, both the pH๏τograph and the corpse it documented were authentic.

Snopes determined through a reverse-image search that the above post was a screensH๏τ of a pH๏τo shared to Reddit on Feb. 8, 2023. A further investigation of the same reverse image search revealed that the pH๏τograph was authentic and published by National Geographic on Aug. 14, 2012 (archived here). Information that accompanied the pH๏τograph read:

Submitted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998, the Atacama’s human ties date back to at least 10,000 B.C.E. One such group were the Chinchorro people, an ancient South American hunter-gatherer group known to have “walked in the land of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ.” Across Chile’s Atacama Desert, thousands of shallow graves encapsulated humans, images of whom would later permeate the internet due to their still-preserved, and in some instances alien-like, characteristics.

This unique preservation is made possible by the environmental characteristics of the Atacama Desert, a desert plateau that stretches east from South America’s Pacific coast to the Andes Mountains, encompᴀssing an area roughly 49,000 square miles. It is considered the world’s driest nonpolar desert, which has created an environment that is hostile, yet ripe for preserving bodies.

Remarkable Pic Shows 7,000-Year-Old Preserved Human Corpse?

A social media post claimed that the corpse’s skin, hair and clothing were still intact.

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