While analyzing an 18th-century Austrian mummy, researchers discovered that the man died from tuberculosis and was preserved in a very unusual way: with wood chips, twigs and fabric packed into his abdomen through his anus.
The mummified body was located in a church crypt in St. Thomas am Blasenstein, a small village in Austria near the Danube River. Known locally as the "air-dried chaplain," the mummy was assumed to have been the preserved remains of a parish vicar named Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg, who died in 1746.
