Mummy Research Paper

This was an area of Eurasia that included the Caucasians including Azerbaijan, the central Asia steppes including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, the...valley of the Indus or that area between India and Pakistan, andthe southern Ukraine with the lower Danube and Bulgaria.

Scholars regard the Scythians as an Iranian nomadic peoples peaking several languages but mostly Iranian (or Parsi which later became Farsi).

Scythians have left important ethnological markers such astamgas (brand marks) and kurgans (permanent cemeteries). A2500 year old mummy was recently found in the snow capped mountains of Mongolia with blond hair, tattoos, and weaponry.The mummy was preserved by ice and was found at 2600 meters.This
Gregory of Tours writes that Clovis defeated Syagrius; hethen married Clothilda, daughter of a Burgundian King, whoattempted to convert him to Christianity but failed. Clothildawas later named a Saint.

Beginning as early as 496 there were secret meetings betweenClovis and Saint Remy, confessor of the wife of Clovis. Soonthereafter an agreement of cooperation was signed betweenClovis and the Roman Church. Such an agreement wasimportant because it transformed the less than unified RomanChurch to one of supreme power in the West. Clovis becamethe sword of the Church.

During a battle against the Alamans, he vowed to become aChristian if he was victorious. He won and was baptized bythe Bishop of Rheims in 496. On his return he receivedconsular office from the eastern emperor (the Western RomanEmpire had ceased to exist) and he established Paris as hiscapital. He was named Novus Constantinus-the newConstantine. At his baptism, Saint Remy said Sicambrian revere what thou hast burned and burn what thou hastrevered.

There was now a powerful religion, and a powerful Churchbeing administered by a Merovingian