Researchers found a centuries-old mummy from Austria exceptionally well preserved – likely the result of a never-before reported embalming method using wood chips, twigs, fabric, and zinc chloride The ...

Researchers have uncovered the reason an “unusual” 18th-century mummy was preserved so well in Austria – and it’s highly abnormal.

Further findings of special fabric tissue from the material detected in the mummy's abdominal cave: Left: A piece of cotton with an elaborate floral pattern. Right: Fragment of a silk fabric such ...

This mummy was preserved in a previously undocumented ... the abdomen through the rectal canal with wood chips, twigs, and fabric and the addition of zinc chloride for internal drying,” as ...

Researchers have revealed the mystery behind a well-preserved 18th-century mummy in Austria, highlighting a unique embalming method involving zinc and fabric.  Read More ...