Just came across this today, very creepy yet amazing. From what I read, it isn't uncommon for monks to perform self-mummification, but there has been no previous encounter like this.
The process takes weeks of not eating and only drinking water. Eventually, they enter a trance and died.
"It was not uncommon for monks to practice self-mummification but to find a mummified monk inside a statue is really extraordinary," said Wilfrid Rosendahl, a German paleontologist
"Using a CAT scan, we saw that there was a perfectly preserved body with skin and muscles inside the statue. It's a complete mummy, not just a skeleton. He was aged between 30 and 50."
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