Cruises from Qilaqitsoq
Qilaqitsoq is an archaeological site on Nuussuaq Peninsula, on the shore of the Uummannaq Fjord in NW Greenland. The major attraction is to unearth history’s mysteries as one visits the gravesite of 500-year old mummies, the best-preserved human remains in all of North America. The remains were found in an icy tomb dated to 1460 CE. Four of these bodies were buried under a rock in cold temperatures, and in essence, they were freeze-dried.
Read moreCommonly referred to as the Greenland Mummies, eight mummies - six women of various ages, a six-month old baby, and a four year old boy - were discovered in 1972 at a remarkable abandoned settlement called Qilakitsoq.
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