{"id":1073751,"date":"2021-12-01T17:43:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073751"},"modified":"2021-12-01T17:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:43:42","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-giant-mummy-found-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-giant-mummy-found-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Giant Mummy Found In North America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-a-giant-mummy-found-in-north-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073751&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/113335120506774\/posts\/399709921869291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a \u201cgiant Nubian mummy found in North America.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7330074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7330074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The mummy pictured was found in either Egypt or the Canary Islands, not North America. There is no evidence it is the mummy of a giant.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/113335120506774\/posts\/399709921869291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> shows what appears to be the mummified remains of a human strapped to a hospital bed about to enter a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/tests-procedures\/ct-scan\/about\/pac-20393675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CT scanner<\/a>. \u201cAnother giant Nubian mummy found in North America\u2026\u201d reads text included in the image. \u201cThey have found to (<em>sic<\/em>) many to count.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nubia is the ancient name for a region in northeastern Africa that includes parts of modern-day Egypt and Sudan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Nubia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/09\/06\/fact-check-stump-ancient-tree-jugurtha-tableland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Image Claims To Show The Stump Of An Ancient 10-Mile Tall Tree)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mummy pictured, however, is not that of a giant and was not found in North America. A reverse image search reveals it is one of four mummies that were brought to Quir\u00f3nsalud University Hospital in Madrid, Spain, in 2016 as part of a study conducted by the hospital in conjunction with the Spanish National Museum of Archaeology, according to an article published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gehealthcare.com\/article\/a-night-out-of-the-museum-mummies-in-the-ct-scanner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GE Healthcare\u2019s website<\/a>, which includes the same image. Three of the mummies were from Egypt, while the fourth was from Tenerife in the Canary Islands, according to the report. All four were scanned using a GE CT system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough the scans, we\u2019re able to ascertain the mummies\u2019 approximate age, sex, height, clothing, and if they suffered any bone fractures,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gehealthcare.com\/article\/a-night-out-of-the-museum-mummies-in-the-ct-scanner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quironsalud.es\/hospital-madrid\/es\/cuadro-medico\/vicente-martinez-vega-fernandez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Vicente Mart\u00ednez de Vega<\/a>, head of the radiology department at Quir\u00f3nsalud Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The article from GE Healthcare does not mention anything about the mummies being giants. Other images of the mummies found in Spanish-language <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtve.es\/noticias\/20160606\/historia-secreta-momias-documental-coproducido-tve\/1355420.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/elpais\/2017\/06\/15\/inenglish\/1497513568_990077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> show they are proportionally sized. Check Your Fact found no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=giant+mummies+discovered+in+North+America&amp;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&amp;oq=giant+mummies+discovered+in+North+America&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30.9240j1j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> suggesting numerous giant mummies have been discovered in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a \u201cgiant Nubian mummy found in North America.\u201dFacebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False The mummy pictured was found in either Egypt or the Canary Islands, not North &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}