1Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, via Montpellier, Rome, Italy
After death, the corpse is subjected to many different post mortem phenomena that change the whole biochemical and physical structures of the vital body. Those phenomena have different evolutions depending on numerous factors typical of the death body and of the setting where the body lies. Mummification is one of the special transformative process that consist in the drying of the entire body structures and requires particular wheatear condition and timing.
Mummification, post mortem, transformative phenomenon
