This embalming process may have enhanced the natural mummification process, but was not the cause.
Papal physicians had been in the habit of removing organs to aid the embalming process.
During the embalming process, which occupied the next two days, Cosima sat with the body as often as possible, to the dismay of her children.
Within the coffin, the body usually has had the organs removed as a necessary part of the embalming process for its display before the funeral.
Harrison believed the slight curve in the spine and small bone fragments might have been the result of the embalming process.
In addition, not refrigerating the body immediately following death, but before the embalming process could lead to rapid deterioration of the human remains as well.
Here, in this melancholy apartment, will one day be placed the body of the present lady abbess, after undergoing some embalming process.
It was even used in the embalming process for Egyptian mummies!
The embalming process, however, has moved on significantly since his original preservation.