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Mummies

The Morbid Journey of Cromwell's Traveling Head

Dolly Stolze November 24, 2014

A Mummy Hoax Might Be Wrapped up in a Modern Murder

Dolly Stolze November 17, 2014

Morbid Monday: The Macabre Romance of a Man and a Mummy

Using plaster of Paris, wires, mortician’s wax, and glass eyes, Tanzler brought Elena “back to life,” and proceeded to take her to his home where the pair shared a marital bed.

Jessica Guerra October 27, 2014

San Diego, California

San Diego Museum of Us

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Boston's Ancient Necropolis Worker with a Broom Handle Neck

Dolly Stolze June 23, 2014

Essential Guide to Waking Nightmares

Allison Meier June 13, 2014

The Mummies of Mexico City

Elizabeth Harper April 23, 2014

Mexico City, Mexico

The Mummies at Museo de El Carmen

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

At the Center of Russian Buddhism, a Festival Reveals an Undead Lama

Zand Martin February 27, 2014

Soap on a Bone: How Corpse Wax Forms

Dolly Stolze February 17, 2014

The Mysterious Pedro Mountain Mummy

Jeremy Fugleberg October 31, 2013

The Bog Bodies

Allison Meier October 3, 2013

The Mummy Everyone Forgot Was Real

Allison Meier October 1, 2013

Schleswig, Germany

The Bog Bodies at the Schleswig-Holstein Landesmuseum

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

Chihuahua, Mexico

La Pascualita

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.

Seattle, Washington

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Dublin, Ireland

Kingship and Sacrifice

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Højbjerg, Denmark

Grauballe Man

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.