People have been
preserving bodies of the dead for millennia, from the bog bodies found in the peat wetlands of northern Europe to the embalmed and wrapped mummies recovered from Egypt's desert sands.
Not exact matches
All you get for your hail
of lead is a slumped, beautifully
preserved body - or one that should have been
dead rising back up like a Terminator to continue firing deadly accurate shots like nothing ever happened.
It's a window into history as well:
bodies preserved in peat bogs and glaciers allow for a look into life thousands
of years ago, as do artifacts buried with the
dead.
Vandercam was fascinated by the
preserved body that had seemingly risen from the
dead and based much
of his subsequent work on it.
The show at Guild Hall includes images
of a cryopreservation unit (where the
dead are
preserved by freezing), a glass flask containing live HIV cells, and a decomposing corpse that's part
of the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, known in popular culture as the
Body Farm.