"[The ringleader] was convicted of stealing, hiding and smuggling precious artefacts from the pharaonic, Islamic and Coptic Christian periods to Switzerland and France, as well as bribing officials and falsifying documents."

" 'The mummy of [the Ice Maiden] is part of historical heritage' - declared Leonid Drachevky, plenipotentiary of the President of Russian Federation in Siberian federal district.... During his meeting with residents of the village of Kosh-Agach and the administration of Kosh-Agach region, the plenipotentiary stated the following: 'We are all educated people and I just feel awkward to hear of awakened spirits as though we live in the period of Middle Ages. If instead of work we start studying metaphysics, nothing good will come out of that.' "

"Sherrill-Harden Funeral Home was closed and [the] owners...gave up their embalmers licenses after an inspector with the state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors found eight decomposing bodies at their business in June. Seven of the bodies were identified, but [the owner] was never able to identify the eighth body, which was found in a mummified state. The unidentified woman will be laid to rest in a lawn crypt at the cemetery along with any of the unclaimed remains...."

" 'I'm certainly not an artist. I think I am a skillful anatomist. I'm an inventor-anatomist. I combine education and entertainment -- edu-tainment. I think everybody in anatomy always shapes the body -- the way I open it. I open it from here in the back, I cut it in pieces. When I decide what I dissect, it is already a kind of mental process. I decide what to show. Should I put it in an awkward way that looks terrible, or should I put it in a pleasing way?' "

"Archaeologists have found more than 50 mummies buried in deep shafts south of Cairo and dating from the first millennium B.C.... Some of the mummies...are in an excellent state of preservation for the period. Egyptians had used the network of shafts and corridors over several centuries, starting from the 26th dynasty (664-525 B.C.) and continuing into the Ptolemaic period, which ended with the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC. "

"A Dutch artist has used a flap of her own skin to make a replica pistol to be shown at an Amsterdam art show next month...she had the flap of skin removed under local anaesthetic to allow her to make the pistol. The surgery left her with 16 stitches. She froze the skin, then defrosted it to make a replica weapon preserved in formaldehyde."

"Egypt said Sunday new mummies in wooden coffins dating back to the 7th Century B.C. have been unearthed at the Giza Pyramids near Cairo...the team opened one of the coffins and found a 'perfectly wrapped mummy.' "

"Among the several specimens showcased include slices of a thigh and a brain, a knee with arthritis, a brain after a stroke and a lung infected with tuberculosis. Full-body specimens of humans and animals in lifelike poses are also featured."

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Archaeology: Well-dressed Song Dynasty mummy (archaeology.org)

 

"What dazzles is the netting. The weaving was reconstructed by archaeologists, all the better to show its intricacy. It's made of Nubian gold beads and blue lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, costly elements strung in a lozenge shape that shrouded the mummy from neck to ankles."

"And now Schlett [the athlete] has decided to donate his body, upon his death, for display in a controversial exhibition that showcases all kinds of skinless corpses of human beings in various poses, shapes and sizes."

"The mummy in question is an archaeological jewel. When her ornately tattooed body was found entombed in ice in an ancient burial chamber, the find was acclaimed as one of the most important in Russia's recent history. The Ice Maiden, as she was dubbed, had survived almost intact in the permafrost of the southern Siberian mountains, surrounded by a burial sacrifice of six horses in gilt harnesses."

"Michael Blagg was sentenced Friday to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of murdering his wife, Jennifer, whose mummified body was unearthed in the Mesa County landfill seven months after she disappeared."

"The specimens on display are donated corpses that have been treated via "plastination," a body-preservation technology invented by Hagens. The process begins with the embalming of specimens in formaldehyde, followed by the replacement of bodily fluids and fat molecules with acetone, which is in turn replaced with plastic. The specimen is then positioned, hardened under heat, and infused with either silicon rubber or resin."

"The show has received little attention among the public in China, but there has been widespread criticism of similar exhibitions overseas. Organizers have relaxed restrictions to allow visitors to touch specimens if they are willing to...."

"PLASTINATION – the technique of preserving body parts indefinitely by removing fluids and impregnating them with silicone rubber – has received a lot of bad press since its invention in 1978 by Dr Gunther von Hagens, a medical doctor from the former communist East Germany. Plastinated specimens look like mummies as they are dry, odourless and lifelike. Von Hagens has courted notoriety with public exhibitions of them."

"A mummified body found at the home of a retired San Diego accountant and his companion after a fire that killed them both could be the man's wife, who has been missing for 28 years, police said on Thursday."

"A Chinese copycat of a German anatomist's exhibition of human corpses which opened in Beijing, is expected to generate more controversy in a culture where the dead are to be shown respect.... The Chinese version of plasticised preserved human corpses even carries the same name as Von Hagens'. It was unclear whether any intellectual property right was being violated. China is widely known for piracy."

"The mystery of the body in the box deepened Wednesday when a forensic exam showed only that the mummified remains are that of a short, white woman, between 42 and 71, who'd had at least one pregnancy."

"A preliminary autopsy Monday was unable to determine the identity or cause of death of the person whose body was discovered in a 55-gallon [cardboard] barrel sealed inside a wooden crate in the garage of the couple, who died in a fire last month, authorities said."

"...they wrapped him in bandages soaked with beeswax to keep out moisture and corruption, and buried him at Thebes on the west bank of the Nile, with a resin bowl accidentally stuck to his head. In the 19th century, villagers unearthed him and put his body onto a flourishing antiquities market. For the last 105 years his body has lain undisturbed in the British Museum."

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"The almost-3,000-year-old mummy of noble birth -- she comes with papers authenticating herself... -- has never been in a museum."

" 'I decided to go up to Alaska and try to find bodies, victims from that pandemic buried in the permafrost, hoping that the virus would be preserved and I could take biopsies from the lung tissue.' "

"A cleaning crew found a decomposing body inside a wooden box Friday at a home...where an elderly couple died in a fire last month."

"The mostly intact body, wrapped in a red-and-black tent, was found on the 16th day of that search. The body was mummified to less than half its normal size from being compacted in layers of trash."

"The creator of a controversial exhibit of preserved human corpses said Wednesday he was tired of dealing with authorities in Germany and would move his show to the United States this summer."

"Residents of Russia's Altai region say that a 25-century-old mummy that was dug up 11 years ago is causing earthquakes in their corner of Siberia and have demanded that it be reburied."