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Shockingly intact mummy found perfectly preserved after bizarre ‘rectal twigging’ method scientists have never seen
A NEARLY 300-year-old mummy has been found “unusually well-preserved” after undergoing a bizarre embalming method. With its ...
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This Priest Was Embalmed With Wood Chips Through His Rectum—And It Worked Surprisingly Well
On a hilltop in the Austrian village of St. Thomas am Blasenstein, inside the cool stone crypt of a modest church, a priest ...
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Will Pope Francis be embalmed? Here’s what will happen to his body after the funeral
The embalming ritual has evolved substantially since the 19th-century, when morticians would remove the organs from the bodies of deceased pontiffs and then lather the skin with herbs and oil. These ...
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Shockingly intact mummy found perfectly preserved after bizarre ‘rectal twigging’ method scientists have never seen
A NEARLY 300-year-old mummy has been found "unusually well-preserved" after undergoing a bizarre embalming method. With its skin still remarkably intact, the 18th-century corpse was found with ...
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Will Pope Francis be embalmed? Here’s what will happen to his body after the funeral
The embalming ritual has evolved substantially since the 19th-century, when morticians would remove the organs from the bodies of deceased pontiffs and then lather the skin with herbs and oil.