I just read a news article about a Catholic Nun from Kansas City that evidently didn’t decompose after four years and now the corpse is on display as evidence of a miracle. How, according to science, is this possible in a humid place like Kansas City without intentionally mummifying the corpse?
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I suppose someone could have done a very good job sealing up her coffin. Well have to wait and see if the Vatican actually makes her a saint to see if they came up with an alternate explanation.
But I came here to mention the [Saltmen of Iran.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltmen). Apparently, these guys, found in Iran, were accidentally mummified when the salt mine they were working in collapsed on them. 1700 years later, their bodies are still not rotted away. That suggests some similar could have happened in Kansas City in that some sort of moisture absorbing material was introduced to the nuns coffin and prevented decomposition.
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