[NautiNurse]

Found near a salt mine. Would salt act as a preservative?

[SunkenCiv]

Definitely, although it's weird no one ever digs up ancient salt shakers...

The saltmine keyword, sorted, edited:

• Ancient Poop Shows People In Austria Enjoyed Beer And Blue Cheese 2,700 Years Ago [10/13/2021]
• "Discovery of a lifetime" golden sun bowl discovered in prehistoric settlement [Ebreichsdorf, Austria] [10/12/2021]
• World's longest salt cave discovered in Israel (near pillar named "Lot's wife") [03/28/2019]
• Salt of the Alps: ancient Austrian mine holds Bronze Age secrets [08/24/2018]
• Old Cellulose [and DNA] Found in NM Salt Crystals [04/15/2008]
• Salt Men (Mummies) To Undergo Surgery [10/27/2007]
• Iran, Germany, And Britain To Decide On Fate Of Salt Men [07/23/2007]
• Sixth Salt Man Discovered In Chehr-Abad Mine [06/05/2007]
• British Experts Started Studies On Zajan's Salt Men In Iran [11/27/2006]
• Oxford Archaeologists Want To Join Studies On Iran's Salt Men [09/30/2006]
• German Archaeologists To Excavate Salt Men's Burial Ground In Iran [06/23/2006]
• New Studies Show Fourth Salt Man Is 2000 Years Old [12/23/2005]

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• The Cargill salt mine: an other world under Lake Erie [12/26/2020]
• Rescue workers searching for two employees after mine collapse (Avery Island LA) [12/14/2020]
• Ethiopian salt miners labour in 140F temperatures while earning just £5-a-day in the hottest [tr] [08/22/2016]
• The Polish Wieliczka Salt Mine comes to Google Street View [09/10/2013]