The Secret Inside the Skull of the 19th Century Mummy

The mummy has been anatomist Giovan Battista Rini (1795-1856) preserved by "petrified" by bathing the mummies in a mixture of mercury and other heavy metals.

The head and torso from the 1800 mummies in the different states are preparing CT scanned at a hospital near Salo, Italy.

The beginning of a bizarre 19th-century woman with eyes and long hair author

This is the mummified remains a man of fresh blood. The new study said that the mummy had been preserved by soaking in a tub chemicals and mercury injection with other minerals in the body tissues.

CT images showed clear cortical slices mummy. Through analysis, the scientists found a large amount of mercury in parts of the mummy. There are also potassium, iron, barium and arsenic.

Here's the mummy more than 150 years old. Unlike petrified mummies by using minerals, mummified tissue cells were again filled with polymer.