265 mummies sat forgotten under a Hungarian church for 200 years. ⚰️ . . . In 1994 workers renovating the Dominican church in Vác broke through a wall and found a sealed crypt. Cool air and pine-oil coffins had naturally mummified 265 people buried between 1731 and 1838. One family — the Orlovits — carried the oldest tuberculosis DNA ever sequenced, from 1808.
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