Blonde Haired Mummy Discovered in a Tennessee Cave

Blonde Haired Mummy Discovered in a Tennessee Cave

It is believed that this is the mummy of Biblical Joseph 1400 B.C.   Joseph was from the same lands of the Amorites who invaded and controlled Egypt

 Smithsonian Institutes Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-1891

     Twelve miles below Carthage, and about a mile from the Cumberland River is a cave in which occurred human bones of all sizes. There is a burying ground near to the fortification, in which, fifteen years ago, were discovered many skeletons, and with them were deposited pipes and water vessels of earthenware. Near to this cemetery is a deep creek running into the river, and forming an acute angle with the latter. At some distance from the junction is a ditch running from the creek to the river, and the remains of a parapet. Opposite to the entrance way, and about six feet from it, is the appearance of a wall on the inside, so formed as to turn those entering to the right or left. In the interior were several mounds.

      Captain Daniel Williams, a man of undoubted veracity, is said to have affirmed that, several years ago, in a cave five or six miles from Carthage, on the Cumberland River, workmen were collecting earth for saltpeter and that many human skeletons were found, one of which was a female in a good state of preservation with yellow hair, and shrivelled flesh. Around the waist was a silver girdle, with marks resembling letters. The body was replaced in the cave whence they had taken it.

Ten Foot Human Skeleton Discovered in an Idaho Cave

Ten Foot Human Skeleton Discovered in an Idaho Cave

Newport Miner, March 17, 1910
PREHISTORIC BONES FOUND
Skeleton Ten Feet Long Discovered in Southern Idaho Cave
   BOISE, Idaho, March 14. - Unmoved, unseen and untouched for hundreds of years and hidden in the recesses of a deep cave 25 miles north of Shoshone, Lincliln County in Southern Idaho, is the skeletons of a giant, ten feet tall evidently of prehistoric origin.  It was recently discovered by a hunting party from this city.
corroborated proof the members are now exhibiting the rusty and worn flint lock barrel of what appears to be an ancient gun weighing between 25  30 pounds, resembling a rifle.  This, they say, was picked up beside the skeleton.
   These bones will be taken out of the cave at the earliest possible date and carefully forewarckpa ded to the Smithsonian Institute.

California Cave Yields Ancient Giant Race of Men

California Cave Yields Ancient Giant Race of Men

L. A. Times September 3, 1916
FIND BONES OF GIANT IN CAVE
     The discovery of a skull, jawbones and femur of giant proportions by D. L. Gilliland and F. M. Puntenney of Moonpark, in a cavern in one of the canyons of the great Pisgah Grando Rancho just over the Ventura county line, lends color to the belief, long held by residents of that scenic section, that the burying place of a prehistoric race of giants has been found. The find was made under peculiar circumstances, Messrs Gilliland and Puntenney who are officers of the law at Moonpark, were searching for two Mexicans, said to have been connected with robberies at Moonpark and Santa Susana. After scouring the various canyons they came upon a wide cavern deep in the brush and hidden from view by a rugged rampart of rocks.
Seeing that there was an opening in which the fugitives might take shelter, Mr. Puntenney pulled aside the underbrush and peered into the depths. Within he saw the grinning skull of huge size and the great femur, that must have formed the thigh bone of a mighty giant.

Ancient Mummies Discovered in Kentucky Cave

Ancient Mummies Discovered in Kentucky Cave

American Antiquarian July 1870

   Within the town limits of Glasgow Junction, Kentucky, a wonder cave has recently been discovered. This has been explored in one direction for the distance of nearly twenty-three miles, and a number of embalmed or mummified bodies have been discovered, similar to those found some years ago in the Mammoth and Salt Caves of the same state. The accounts of these discoveries are as yet measure, but important results are looking for. The bodies have been placed in rude stone coffins, which presented every indication of great age.

Ancient Caucasians Mummies Found in Tennessee Cave

Ancient Caucasians Mummies Found in Tennessee Cave

It happens that few baskets have been recovered from mounds and graves, but they are occasionally reported as having been discovered in 

caverns and shelters where conditions were especially favorable to their preservation. Such specimens may as reasonably be attributed to the mound-building as to the other Indians. The following statement is from John Haywood:

On the south side of Cumberland river, about 22 miles above Cairo, * * * is a cave * * *. In this room, near about the center, were found sitting in baskets made of cane, three human bodies; the flesh entire, but a little shrivelled, and not much so. The bodies were those of a man, a female and a small child. The complexion of all was very fair, and white, without any intermixture of the copper colour. Their eyes were blue; their hair auburn, and fine. The teeth were very white, their stature was delicate, about the size of the whites of the present day. The man was wrapped in 14 dressed deer skins. The 14 deer skins were wrapped in what those present called blankets. They were made of bark, like those found in the cave in White county. The form of the baskets which inclosed them, was pyramidal, being larger at the bottom, and declining to the top. The heads of the skeletons, from the neck, were above the summits of the blankets.[10]