[An explanation of changes observed in mummified bodies]
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Published on: September 21, 2012
Soudni Lekarstvi
|November 1, 1986
Abstract:
An interesting morphological finding of fibrillar structures inside and on the surface of mummified human bodies has been explained as a product of larvae of the beetle Dermestes lardarius.

