Mummified body

Mummy at the Museo de las Momias

Egypt: The practice of mummification emerged when the dead began to be buried in coffins rather than laid in the desert sand where they naturally desiccated. The viscera were first removed, and then the body was swathed in strips of cloth. Over the centuries the process was steadily refined.

In 2003, a medical antiquities dealer sold an unusual item, a partial mummified body, to a private Canadian collector. This specimen only consisted of a partial skull, neck, and top of the torso, a…

Mummified bodies in a crypt in Lithuania are teaching scientists about health and disease among people who lived long ago.

A museum in Guanajuato, Mexico displays the mummified remains of 1833 cholera epidemic victims.

How incredible is it to be able to look upon the facial expression of a deceased man who lived and died thousands of years ago? Mummification, whether accidental or intentional, preserves the bodies of humans and animals with extreme cold, very low humidity, lack of air or exposure to chemicals. Mummies are found all over […]

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An Update on the Mummies of Guanajuato Every country has its own unusual, paranormal, or just plain weird traditions that other cultures can’t wrap their

The Huldremose woman, 2nd century BC. Found in a peat turf at Huldremose in Denmark. She wore a skirt of wool, a scarf and two skin capes. The woman was more than 40 years old when she ended up in the bog. She was an old woman by Iron Age standards of life expectancy.

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On the afternoon of Oct. 4, 2011, a backhoe dug into an excavation pit in Elmhurst, Queens, and struck iron. Construction workers assumed they had hit a pipe. But when the claws of the backhoe emerged from the ground, it was dragging a body clothed in a white gown and knee-high socks.

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How did the Huldremose woman die?

The corpse (pictured) was discovered by mountaineers on the 5,610-metre Pico de Orizaba - just months after two other frozen bodies were found on the same icy peak.

The Fiji Mermaid was an object of fantasy but for a long time it was on display as a specimen that many people believed was real.

Toxii, 31, from Belgium, started her body modification journey four years ago and now looks worlds away from her former self.