Saltmen

The Saltmen (Persian: مردان نمکی, mardān-e namakī) are the preserved remains of multiple human individuals that were discovered in the Chehrabad salt mines, located on the southern part of the Hamzehlu village, on the west side of the city of Zanjan, in the Zanjan Province in Iran.

[1] The head and left foot of Salt Man 1 are on display at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran.

These included the remains of a body, a lower leg inside a leather boot, three iron knives, a woollen half trouser, a silver needle, a sling, parts of a leather rope, a grindstone, a walnut, some pottery shards, some patterned textile fragments, and a few broken bones.

Visual characteristics included long hair and a beard; a golden earring in the left ear indicated that he was likely a person of rank or influence.

[3] In a 2012 research paper,[5] it was reported that the 2200-year-old mummy of Chehrabad had tapeworm eggs from the genus Taenia in his intestine.