A "virtual autopsy" of the mummified remains of a toddler buried inside a family crypt in Austria reveals that the child died from a lack of sunlight, a new study finds. Believed to be Reichard Wilhelm, the first-born son of a Count of.
The naturally mummified body of the infant comes from the family crypt of the Counts of Starhemberg, one of the oldest aristocratic families in Austria.
Examinations of a 17th century mummified infant have revealed the short, aristocratic, and privileged life he had still resulted in death from malnourishment.