These peculiar mummies were tracked down in the Italian city of Venzone, a little village in the region of Udine.

The principal mummy was uncovered in 1647, and before long scores of comparable old bodies were found covered underneath the town’s house of prayer.

Researchers had the option to recuperate upwards of 42 mummies, then, at that point, after a quake struck the area in 1976, the quantity of mummies decreased to just 15.

The Venzone mummies were surprising and very bewildering on the grounds that the bodies had never disintegrated. Researchers began examining the old bodies to figure out what kept the mummies from breaking down.

The mummies were all similar apparently and showed similar characteristics when analyzed. The bodies safeguarded their structures and elements. Despite the fact that they were significantly changed, they were as yet conspicuous.

The bodies were incredibly light, and scientists saw the skin, which was is of a yellowish-earthy colored color, seemed to be tanned calfskin. The heaviness of the mummies fluctuated from 22 to 44 pounds for the tallest people.

It before long turned out to be evident that regular cycles embalmed these individuals, however the reason for the Venzone mummies’ protection stayed a secret.

In the Scholarly Review deciphered parts of an article by F. Savorgnan de Brazza in which he expressed that “the conservation of dead bodies might be achieved misleadingly by the utilization of synthetics, just like with the mummies of Egypt, Peru, and Mexico. The embalmment is now and again additionally normal; certain burial places and certain graveyards have the property of protecting and embalming bodies, and however these are not exceptionally various, they are not so intriguing as one would naturally suspect. .. In all such cases bodies are viewed as dried and embalmed normally so after expulsion from their burial chambers they oppose the atrocity of the climate endlessly.

There have been numerous speculations with respect to this conservation of bodies in the burial chambers of Venzone. Some have ascribed it to the presence of salts of niter, alumina, or lime, however there are no such salts in the burial chambers.

New examinations have demonstrated that the embalmment isn’t because of compound activity, yet to a biologic cycle.”

Current researchers have had the option to pin this preservation on Hypha tombicina. The tiny parasite organism probably does it by quickly drying out the bodies before they can start to decay. The growth fills in the Basilica graves and figures out how to get dried out a body in one year and is liable for the material like skin of the body. The Hypha tombicitia was found in a few pieces of the bodies and it likewise covered the wooden final resting places.

Mummy was tracked down in the Roman burial ground sanctuary close by the basilica Sant’Andrea Apostolo in Venzone. Picture credit: Joadl – CC BY-SA 3.0

Notwithstanding, there is still some uncertainty that the Hypha parasite is the genuine reason. A few researchers declare the limestone present in the encompassing earth might be the guilty party.

The act of covering dead in holy places was subsequently prohibited, which forestalled further perception of the regular cycle. While a few hypotheses have been presented with respect to the reason for the mummies’ protection, there is still no definitive assessment regarding what precisely halted the disintegration interaction, and the mummies of Venzone stay an old secret.