The severed foot found on Lara Bay beach in Paphos on Sunday belongs to an adult, according to an anthropologist commissioned ...
He also donated to the Mütter the famous Soap Lady, whose corpse had become coated in a waxy, soap-like substance called adipocere. The medical history museum in Philadelphia is notorious for ...
Such remains can form adipocere, a waxy substance formed by the interaction of fat in soft tissue with water, that inhibits skeletonization. Adipocere tended to occur "during a prolonged stay in ...