However it happens, the mummification process preserves the body's soft tissue long after it would normally have decomposed ...

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"They certainly must have seen it as a soft target, " he told CNN.

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"It's quite tough sand and not as soft as it could have been, " he added.

BBC: Roger Auster

The Times's editors, it seems, have a soft spot for elaborate and harebrained schemes along these lines.

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