Police confiscate mummy from Mich. woman
Mummified human skeletal remains confiscated from the home of a woman who police say was trying to sell them on eBay likely came from an early 19th century Scottish collection, authorities said. Police said Friday they have closed their investigation and do not plan to seek criminal charges. 美国密歇根州有关部门日前透露,该洲一名妇女前不久打算将一具被制成木乃伊的人体骨骼拿到eBay网站上出售,但这具人体骨骼被认为是19世纪早期一位苏格兰学者的收藏品,因此骨骼已被该州警方没收。 The remains were confiscated Oct. 10 after being spotted on the Internet auction Web site.Lynn Sterling told police she obtained the remains from a friend who works in demolition and who said he found them in a Detroit school he helped demolish about 30 years ago. 警方于10月10日没收骨骼,也不准备对该女子提出犯罪指控。这位名叫琳恩·斯特林的妇女告诉警方,她是从一个专门从事拆房工作的朋友那里得到这具骨骼的,而后者曾经对她表示他是在约30年前帮忙拆除底特律一所学校时发现它的。 A Michigan State University anthropologist determined that remains likely date from the early 19th century and were part of a collection of anatomical specimens from Scottish anatomist Allen Burns, the Times Herald reported. 密歇根州州立大学人类学家诺曼·索尔断定,这具骨骼是一个死亡时年龄大约在6岁到9岁之间的孩子的遗体,它的历史可以追溯到19世纪早期,是一位名叫艾伦·伯恩斯的苏格兰解剖学家所收藏的解剖学专用标本的一部分。索尔在其发给警方的一封电子邮件中指出,那些收藏品是在1820年被人带到美国的,此后一直放置在马里兰大学医学院内。 The listing was removed from eBay on Oct. 11 because it violated a policy against selling human remains, eBay has said. The Web site allows the sale of skeletons for medical use, but not mummified remains. eBay方面表示,由于违反了不得出售人体骨骼的相关政策,斯特林贴出的售物信息已于10月11日被删除。eBay允许售卖用于医学目的的多种骨骼,但不包括被制成木乃伊的人体尸骨。 |