EMBALMING TECHNIQUES IN ANCIENT TURKS AND

MEDICAL MATERIALS USED

THE MUMMIFICATION TECHNIQUES IN THE OLD TURKS AND

THE MEDICAL MATERIALS USED

Kurgans belonging to Ancient Turks discovered in the Scythian area with the Siberian-Altay region of the buried person

in addition to his funeral, they are covered with a wide variety of valuable items. Due to this structure, the oldest Turks

they provide opportunities for recognition of social and cultural life. Having mummified corpses

the kurgans, on the other hand, present the codes of the anatomy of the Ancient Turks.

The skills of the Turks in the construction of tombs and the art of mummification and the technique they use

therefore, the bodies have reached the present day in the closest form to the truth. Clothes belonging to the metfun and

the fabrics found in the grave have also not lost their texture and vitality in colors. Thanks to this, the Turk

their mummies compete with the most famous Egyptian mummies.

The most important factor that provides this is that the Turks preferred well-dried soil in the construction of kurgan

they should be. In addition, the burial of the funeral by salting is also an obstacle to all kinds of decay and deterioration

has done. As a result of this method, not even the slightest moisture has been processed into the graves for thousands of years.

The materials used during embalming, especially plants, are successful in the embalming technique

it is another factor in its occurrence. In this context, in the light of the archaeological studies on Kurgan in particular

In Turks, the preservation phase of the funeral until the burial process and embalming procedures will be examined.

In addition, the effect of the drugs used, plants and surgical procedures applied on preserving the body

and the place and importance of all this in the history of medicine will be touched upon.

Mummies of the Steppe

The ancient Turks who faced the reality of death according to the conditions of the geography in which they lived

they have arranged funeral ceremonies for themselves accordingly. These ceremonies

one of the important stages is the burial of the dead. Burial by researchers

the construction of the event is only the archaeological studies carried out on the kurgans and

it was possible with the prepared reports. These kurgans, Altay kurgans, Ancient Tombs and

these two complexes can be counted as Pazırık, Esik, Berel, Şiliktin, Beşşatır, Ukok, Urumqi,

The kurgans of the Tuva region and others are1

.

The first mummified bodies in the steppe geography are found in the Altay kurgans.

For example, during the Shibe excavations carried out by Gryaznov in 1927 in the Ursul valley, an elderly

the bodies of men and children have been recovered. Moreover, the body of these bodies is fine before burial

a number of procedures have been implemented with the idea of preserving it. Russian since 1929

pazyryk unearthed by the excavations of archaeologists Rudenko and Gryaznov

In the fifth of the kurgans, a male and female corpse are in a single sarcophagus, and again 2. kurganda

the funeral of a mummified man and woman has been reached (Rudenko 1970: 279-280). Man

the corpse is described as a solid-bodied, Mongoloid-type person between the ages of 50 and 60, and Decapitated with black hair.

it is described. He is thought to be a tribal leader and based on the blows he received to the head

the man who is presumed to have died during the war, his wife, who is in her 40s, tall and elegantly built

or he was buried with his favorite concubine (Çoruhlu 2016:136).

In the 1990s, on the Ukok plateau, located south of the Russian-dominated Altay Mountains

kurgans have been identified as a result of research conducted over the years. Ak Alaha Kurgans

these kurgans, which are named as, appear as three cemetery sites. Ak

Thanks to the climatic conditions and the unique nature of the plateau in the Alaha I Cemetery, some of them are frozen or

and in the burial chambers covered with ice crystals, with the mummified remains of a horse and a man

a female mummy has been found. The male mummy is 45-50 years old, the female mummy is 16

it is explained that he is of age and that both of them have European characteristics.

As a result of the investigations, it has been determined that this tomb complex belongs to 2500 years ago

(Molodin-Polos'mak 2016:111; Çoruhlu 2016: 157-162).

Again in the South Siberian Tuva Republic BC. 8. and 7. arzan I, dated to the century

and it is claimed that the kurgans of Arzan II belonged to the Scythians or Proto-Turks (Coruhlu

2016: 174-177). from 1968 to 1984, Dec. Excavated by archaeologists in St. Petersburg

Most of the Aymyrlyg tomb complexes are BC. 3-2. between the Decennials

it has been dated and it has been suggested that it belongs to the Scythian period. Here is the skeletal structure

in addition to the degraded human bones, the embalming technique of the Hun-Sarmatian period

there are also corpses with the anatomical structure of the body intact.