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These remarkable Italian mummies have been preserved almost perfectly 200 years ago for medical demonstrations. Giovan Battista Rini stripped away the skin to show the muscles, airways and blood vessels inside the heads.
Academics have now discovered the specimens were injected with arsenic and mercury - or dipped in chemical baths to preserve them for research. Although mummification is associated with Ancient Egypt, it was carried out through the centuries for the benefit of researchers and medical students.
The specimens have false hair and teeth and their eye caps have been added artificially. However, they are otherwise remarkably well looked after.
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I can never look at stuff like this without thinking these were once living, breathing human beings ....
