(3 Oct 2011)
AP Television
Vilnius, Lithuania - August 8, 2011
1. Close of mummy of young boy in wooden box
2. Mid of anthropologist Rimantas Jankauskas with fellow scientist taking mummy of boy from box
3. Mid of Jankauskas with mummy
4. Mid of Jankauskas with bone
5. Close of Jankauskas opening bag containing male mummy
7. Mid of Jankauskas
8. Various of Jankauskas moving male mummy, tearing organic growth off back of mummy
9. Wide of catacombs with bagged mummies
10. Wide of speleologist Daumantas Liekis, with Mayor of Vilnius Arturas Zuokas and anthropologist Rimantas Jankauskas, pan to mummies
11. Mid of Liekis and Arturas Zuokas, pan to dungeons
12. SOUNDBITE (Lithuanian) Arturas Zuokas, Mayor of Vilnius:
"This is a truly unique and historically important place. I think that after the scientific research underway is completed, we need to open the area to the general public since this is not only a part of our city's history but a part of man's understanding of history as well. I think that this would be a perfect place for a museum and exhibition of these findings. Everyone who comes to visit Vilnius would be able to see not only its history above ground, but would also be able to see the secrets of underground Vilnius that hide beneath the streets on which we walk everyday."
13. Wide of Professor Rimantas Jankauskas, anthropologist from Vilnius University, working with laptop in catacombs
14. Pan of catacombs
15. SOUNDBITE (Lithuanian) Professor Rimantas Jankauskas, anthropologist, Vilnius University:
"We're studying the remains, the mummies of people who lived in Vilnius a long time ago. We hope to learn a lot of things, about their eating habits, their way of life, their illnesses, their physical activities, perhaps about their origins or genetic make-up. And that is why we made such an ambitious programme, where all research is being done by using the latest technology. Radiological tests have been performed and also tomography tests. Furthermore we plan to make microscopic tests and continue the research."
16. Close of snails
17. Mid of speleolgist Daumantas Liekis using magnifying glass to examine snails
18. Wide of Liekis walking through catacombs
19. SOUNDBITE (Lithuanian) Daumantas Liekis, speleolgist:
"The snails are rather simple to understand. This is one of several types that fed on the mummies and they did that because the mummies were attractive to them as a source of nourishment. I collected these snails from wood that was rotting here. They came up through layers of earth and began to feed on the remains of the old, rotting caskets because this area right here where we're standing was closed off for a long time, it was fairly damp here and conditions were rather good for them to feed and further develop."
Vilnius, Lithuania - August 19, 2011
20. Mid of Rimantas Jankauskas with colleague looking at CT scan of mummified boy, on a computer at Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine
21. Close of scanned skeleton of mummified boy
22. SOUNDBITE (Lithuanian) Rimantas Jankauskas, anthropologist:
"In the Dominican church were found about 600 buried people in a variety of conditions. Most of the corpses were skeletons but others were mummies. The corpses are of different ages and sexes and one third of them are children. Also these corpses reflect the demographic situation of that time. We have done general analysis, diagnostics of age and sex, and detected few pathologies. Furthermore, we decided to research the best mummified remains."
Vilnius, Lithuania - August 18, 2011
24. Wide of Daumantas Liekis entering church
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