Each mummy has their own story to tell, and this week, researchers have uncovered the truth behind an enigmatic figure from a remote Austrian village. A water leak in the church crypt of St ...

To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. For many people, the term “mummy” usually brings to mind images of Egyptian sarcophagi. But the history of mummies is much more complex and ...

Centuries later, a capsule-shaped object spotted in an X-ray scan of the mummy revealed that the cleric might have met a more sinister end, suggesting he may have been poisoned. Now, a team of ...

The mummy of the 'air-dried chaplain' in his coffin in the church crypt of St. Thomas am Blasenstein, Austria. (Image Credit: Andreas Nerlich) We typically associate mummies with ancient Egypt — or ...

But it's not one for the squeamish. 'The unusually well-preserved mummy in the church crypt of St Thomas am Blasenstein is the corps of a local parish vicar, Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg ...

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 ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well. In a first ...

Now, after years of mystery, the "unusually" well-preserved mummy of an 18th-century priest has finally been revealed to have been embalmed using a strange method never documented before.

(CNN) — For many people, the term “mummy” usually brings to mind images of Egyptian sarcophagi. But the history of mummies is much more complex and spans cultures around the world.

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