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This helps mummify corpses—though sphagnan also leaches the calcium out of bones, weakening them.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the workshops had been used to mummify humans and sacred animals.

From Washington Times ● May 27, 2023

These injuries suggest that Dakota’s carcass remained unburied and vulnerable to scavenging for some time after the dinosaur’s death—but if the dino wasn’t rapidly buried, how did it mummify?

From Scientific American ● Oct. 14, 2022

That means they used mortuary practices to conserve the bodies rather than leave them to naturally mummify in the dry climate - although some naturally mummified bodies have also been found at the sites.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2021

I remember the Scotch tape ads from the forties: mummify your hand in inside- out Scotch tape, defuzz your clothing.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

In honeybees, this fungus causes an illness known as stonebrood disease, which mummifies the young bees.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2023

She was recently packing for a trip to visit Summum, a group in Utah that mummifies pets.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2011

Your team mummifies you with five tight belts.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is often claimed that phosphorus eaten by rats or mice dries up or mummifies the body so that no odor results.

From House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 by David E. Lantz

And, again rightly or wrongly, I have also contended that the hand of purpose deadens and mummifies story.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Researchers discovered a second, larger dog skull, along with the naturally mummified skeleton of a male dog buried in a shallow pit.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The Academy Museum wanted the original mummified Mrs. Bates head from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” but there was one problem: She was too fragile to travel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

He remained frozen in the ice until two German hikers stumbled across his mummified remains in 1991 in the northern Italian region of South Tyrol.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

New research now shows that the distinctive musty scent of mummified remains holds valuable clues about how these elaborate burial rituals were carried out.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026

I looked at Dad with his mummified boot perched on a chair.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Rühli says he believes this could have inspired ancient Egyptians to start mummifying their honored dead.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

As for the legacy or genealogy side of things, there are chasmic unknowns to mummifying yourself in the digital world.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2022

That's the question my Food52 colleagues asked when they saw me mummifying avocado halves in plastic wrap to prepare them for life eternal in the freezer.

From Salon ● May 15, 2021

Forget a quick splodge of face paint or mummifying yourself in loo roll - celebrities always bring their costume A-game for Halloween.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2019

Sometime before 5000 b.c. they began mummifying bodies—children at first, adults later on.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann