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Church of the Dead

#church of the dead #chiesa dei morti #skulls #skeletons #mummies #human remains #urbania #italy #photography #b&w photography

Yan Morvan, 1993

Excerpt from a sadomasochistic session for Entrevue magazine: The woman in the photo, a bourgeois woman from the upscale neighborhoods, liked to dress up as a mummy before having sex.

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Scientists Make Sourdough Bread from Yeast Found Inside the stomach of a 5,000-Year-Old Mummy

Scientists have kept his body frozen since he was found in 1991, which led to some surprising discoveries of ancient and modern microbial life inside his stomach.

“What we didn’t expect to find was yeast,” lead study author Mohamed Sarhan of the Eurac Research institute told Reuters.

"If you tell anyone you have yeast, they immediately ask: Can we use it for bread?" Sarhan said.

"Initially it didn't work," the microbiologist admitted.

But after three months of effort "we had a very, very good sourdough," Sarhan said with a laugh.

When asked if the scientists were considering using the yeast to brew beer, he responded: "It's on the list."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oetzi-the-iceman-yeast-mummy-sourdough-bread/

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Finally put some pants on these guys so I can actually post about them on main a bit MUMMIES! And a still living attendant, whose social status is at a crossroads between 'temple priestess' and 'prostitute we don't talk about'. And now I'm gonna babble about the background lore of these characters who exist to draw fucky mummies

So. In a world where death is broken and pretty much anyone who dies has a decent chance of coming back in some form, a lot of different practices have evolved in order to handle this. Cremation, culling, ghoul burials, tossing the body somewhere far away and spinning it around 13 times so it can't find it's way back...so on and so forth. One such method is based on gratification: the belief that if the undead are simply given what they want, they'll move on. Hungry ghost theory. And this is largely true! The benign dead are simple, often only seeming to crave the most basic pleasures of life: Warmth, food, and companionship. Of course it's never that clean cut or pristine, and the second-living often crave physical attention even more than the living, so attendants provide that too. Which doesn't always go over well with...well most people. In settlements this is practiced attendants are typically living somewhere fairly removed from the general populace and required to mark themselves in some way, so that other citizens may react to them appropriately when in the same space. This semi-seclusion and self identification can make them some of the first people to be made examples of in the event of a culture clash wherein the other party sees the practice as intolerable. On the more fun side, these sects are often in charge of hosting festivals and bringing in everyone's long tall grandmas for tea and cakes and music, so it's a real mixed bag. And then there's the mummies. Mummies are sort of an odd case in this world; where most second-living lose a notable chunk of their complexities upon resurrection, a mummy's personality is often just as preserved as its body, and is therefore much harder to please than the average wraith. Hell, some even come back with a job, and will not be happy to be removed from that job. Yuli's friends here are likely temporary visitors- Bogs in particular was a public nuisance who is currently being housed while they work on them being less of a pest and drinking all the beer at the local inns. Mummies are very thirsty, as you might imagine.

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Egyptian cat coffin Faint traces remain of a necklace scratched into the finished bronze Greco-Roman; Egypt c. 300s BCE Bronze, hollow cast; overall: 51 x 14.1 x 24 cm

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This Fossil Friday, meet the Museum’s mummified hadrosaur—one of the most complete pieces of Mesozoic dinosaur remains ever found! This fossil represents one of the greatest discoveries in the history of paleontology: a rare glimpse at the texture of dinosaur skin. Like the skin on modern birds’ feet, this duck-billed dinosaur’s skin was marked by bumps called tubercles. The tubercles are larger along the animal’s back and sides and smaller around the joints, which needed to be flexible.