Mummy mystery solved: ‘air-dried’ priest was embalmed via rectum

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Method of preserving 18th-century Austrian vicar has never been seen before, say researchers

The mystery of a mummy from an Austrian village has been solved, according to researchers who say it was em…

Unravelling the mystery of the Mummy of the 'Air-Dried Chaplain': Vicar who died in 1746 was exceptionally well preserved thanks to unusual embalming technique - via his rectum

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

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The long-dead vicar, who passed away in 1746, has an unusual embalming method to thank for his extraordinary durability. But it's not one for the squeamish.

‘Mummy, Charlie called me fat today’: how to talk to kids about body image

found 2025 › Apr › 27 (Sun) @ 11:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A psychologist reveals five questions children can ask – and how to answer them

• Can I protect my seven-year-old daughter from the impossible beauty standards of the fashion world?

If your child is up…

Mummy Pig's having a...! Pregnant swine reveals her piglet's gender as Peppa Pig and family go the whole hog with huge party at iconic London landmark

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 13:40 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

After Mummy Pig broke the internet when she revealed live on GMB hat she is pregnant with her third piglet, the family have gone all out for their gender reveal.

Mummy found in Peru could be 5,000 years old

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 12:50 UTC

a story from Al Jazeera › Al Jazeera English

Archaeologists have uncovered the preserved body of a woman, who they believe is up to five thousand years old.

MasterChef judge reveals how reuniting with his mum 45 years after being abandoned turned into a horrible nightmare - 'I was alone, in debt and suicidal'

found 2025 › Mar › 25 (Tue) @ 07:00 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Frankly, it's the kind of thing an unhappy little boy who never knew his mother might lie awake fantasising about. One day Mummy will turn up and want to make amends for all those years of hurt.

Sing Sing on stage: the Oscar-nominated drama hits New York

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 17:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The play within the acclaimed prison-set movie made its way to an off-Broadway stage this week with original cast members involved

Recently, a few hundred people gathered in Manhattan at the New York …

‘Never seems to end’: exhausted quake-hit Vanuatu rebuilds again

found 2025 › Jan › 25 (Sat) @ 07:22 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

True cost and psychological toll of the December quake emerges as the Pacific country grapples with its third major disaster in two years

Last month in the small settlement of Mele Maat, just outside …