The Ancient Native American Found 2.5 Miles Inside Mammoth Cave — And The Mystery Of Why His People Went So Deep Underground
The cave keeps its records for as long as the conditions allow — the dry air, the constant temperature, the absence of disturbance.
The conditions have allowed it here for two thousand years.
His mummified body, the blanket-robe, the shell necklace, the hickory nuts in his stomach — all of it was preserved until 1935 and studied until the 1970s, and he now rests in his secret location somewhere in the cave that held him for so long.
Modern visitors on the Violet City Lantern Tour stop near the boulder.
They hold their oil lanterns in the same dark that the ancient miner entered with cane torches.
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