A 3-century-old mummy "Mermaid" was found in Japan

Scientists from Kurashiki University of Science and Arts in Japan are examining one of their strangest archaeological finds: a mummified "mermaid" more than three centuries old.


Japanese legend says that the mermaid was hunted on the island of Shikoku in the southern Japanese archipelago between 1736 and 1741.

Her scaly face, pointed teeth, and sparse hair give her a mysterious image of a fearsome human face with a large fish tail.


"Japanese mermaids are associated with the idea of ​​immortality," says researcher Hiroshi Kinoshita. "It is said that if you eat mermaid meat, you will never die. In many areas of Japan there is a legend about a woman who lived for 800 years after accidentally eating mermaid meat."


But all this is nothing more than popular myths, according to Japanese researchers.

Perhaps in the case of the newly discovered "nymph", the bodies of two animals stuck together in the form of a mermaid, especially since the Japanese had created this type of creature to sell to foreigners looking for wonders in Japan.