mummies Archives

The cult of modern mummification – who pays to remain intact?

In short In Salt Lake City, Utah, the religious group Summum offers the world’s only “modern mummification”. It costs around

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In short In March 2016 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 26-year-old Fernando de Jesús Díaz Beato, who had been shot

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In short For centuries Egyptian mummies were treated not as precious relics but as goods. They were ground up and

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In short Bog bodies are corpses naturally mummified in the peat bogs of northern Europe, where acidic water, cold and

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In short Five incredibly well-preserved mummies: the Inca “doncella” of Llullaillaco volcano, sacrificed about 500 years ago; Cherchen Man, who

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In short What it is: the Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis, the “Linen Book of Zagreb”, the longest known Etruscan text. When:

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In Salò, a small village with 10.000 people in the italian provicne of Brescia, there are some italian mummies. They

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In short Who: Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin, born 1 September 1966 in Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod. Who he was: a linguist,

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The story of the little Marquis Francesco Longhi takes place in the castle of Fumone, in Lazio, already the scene

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In short Who: Rosalia Lombardo (Palermo, 13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920). Where she lies: in the chapel of

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In short Who: the Toraja, a people living in the highlands of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. What Ma’nene is:

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