mummify

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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

In drier climes, it can mummify for years; in wetter ones, a face becomes a skull in weeks.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2019

Some villagers in Papua New Guinea still mummify their ancestors today.

From National Geographic • Jan. 18, 2016

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