What conditions, if anything, can stave off decomposition in damp earth?
> “A few weeks or months after death, the body was still ‘fresh,’” Dr. Skóra said.
> “A few weeks or months after death, the body was still ‘fresh,’” Dr. Skóra said.
I wouldn't dare to say that weeks or month after death a corpse can still be "fresh", but in some places when/if you open a buried coffin after 5 years or so it is not rare that there has been not enough decomposition to allow the transfer of the body to an ossuary.
There are "aerated" tombs devised to accelerate the decomposition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sykes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sykes#Exhumation_for_biol...
but it seems like the attempt was not successful, the lead coffin was broken and the body was not as well preserved as it was expected.
That's the first new NSFL search term I've run across in years.
Bravo, sir!
If that is your initialism then... bravo.