mummies
Mummified Woman Dead for Six Years Reportedly Voted in 2010
Taylor Berman · 03/11/14 02:35PMMummified Body of Author Found in Home Over a Year After Her Death
Taylor Berman · 05/13/13 07:38PMThe Terrifying Body Worlds Mummy Heads of 19C Italy
Maureen O'Connor · 02/21/12 06:18PMA group of forensic anthropologists have completed a meticulous analysis of a set of real human anatomy displays from 19C Italy. Using CT scans and other chemical analysis, the group determined that, some 200 years ago, anatomist Giovan Battista Rini "petrified" the corpses with a mercury and other heavy metals. He injected some tinctures and used others as baths. The eyes are fake. Basically, Rini was modern medicine's first "Body Worlds" guy.
Graverobber Kept 29 Mummified Women 'As Life-Sized Dolls'
Maureen O'Connor · 11/07/11 01:52PMTerminally Ill Man Mummified For New Reality Show
Seth Abramovitch · 10/16/11 09:26PMReality TV has certainly dabbled in ancient embalming practices before — Paula Abdul immediately springs to mind — but never, to my knowledge, has it been taken quite to these extremes. A terminally ill man with a longheld fascination for Egyptian burial rites donated his body to a documentary series about mummification on Britain's Channel 4.