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The incredible bodies that do not decompose.



The incredible bodies that do not decompose.

In March 2014 a team of archaeologists discovered while excavating the Convent of the Jacobins, Rennes (France), the remains of Louise de Quengo, a body of 1.45 meters and 358 years old ... 

The incredible bodies that do not decompose.
The incredible bodies that do not decompose.


perfectly preserved, with skin , muscles and even organs. Although it sounds strange, it is not the first case of a body found in extraordinary condition. While some consider this natural mummification as a miracle, science has an explanation for this phenomenon. The call also can occur spontaneously mummified by the confluence of a number of factors, such as dryness of the environment,
 the absence of insects, lack of body fat and the existence of an internal environment that destroys the bacteria, causing a process natural drying preventing putrefaction and decomposition of the body. 

Another cause of mummification is that the body be in a sterile environment humidity: adipocira there a phenomenon of that first converts soap tissues by fat, and then the soft parts become something like the clay is given. A third possibility is the petrification of the body, due to infiltration by hidrioxipatita and calico carbonate, as in the case of the mummies Tollund marsh in Denmark,

 or the man of Cashel, Ireland. In any case, the organs of a body be preserved is essential that the body does not come into contact with oxygen. A paradox about the case in Norway, where the cemeteries have space problems because bodies do not decompose, since buried (for a sanitary measure taken during World War II) wrapped in plastic sleeves that do not allow the passage of oxygen.

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