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Natural Means of Preservation
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Embalming has been in vogue since time immemorial without the deliberate intervention of humans.
By this method bodies are preserved for centuries in the ice and snow of glaciers or snowcapped mountains.
Freezing:
A morgue located on the top of St Bernard Mountain in Switzerland was constructed to permit free admission of the elements. True mummies were produced as a result of the passage of the cold, dry air current over the corpses.
Dry cold:
Dry heat:
Natural mummies are produced in the extremely dry, warm areas of Egypy, southwestern America, and Peru.
There are recorded instances of the discovery of bodies in a good state of preservation after long-term burial in a peat bog, which had a high tannin content, or in soils strongly impregnated with salts alluminuim or copper.
Nature of the soil at the place of interment:
