Mummy Stash Found in Italian Church

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Hundreds of bodies stacked one of top of the other emerged during restoration work in the church of Roccapelago, a remote mountain village in north-central Italy.
About one-third of the mass grave, consisting of 281 bodies of adults, infants and children, turned out to be mummies.

Found in the crypt of the church, the mummies have hands clasped in prayer and feature intact skin, tendons, and hair.