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Summary of audience discussion: In Israel a monk buried with 

 intact clothing has been disinterred and found to be marvelously 

 preserved. Other areas where spontaneous mummification has oc- 

 curred in subterranean chambers include Urbania (northern Italy), 

 Palermo (Sicily) and Guanamoto (northwestern Mexico). All of 

 these occur in limestone areas but the mechanisms arc speculative. 

 Recently in a medieval cemetery in northern England the very well- 

 preserved body of a knight was found wrapped in a shroud and 

 rolled up in a lead sheet. Clearly we need to study the phenomenon 

 of spontaneous mummification by experimental archeological 



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