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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor_Malek" data-source="post: 5275455" data-attributes="member: 91608">Pro tip: the whole reason why biomass is preserved so well while frozen like that is lack of oxygen. But once access to it resumes - it tends to catch up mighty fast, and wood that survived for hundreds of years crumbles in matter of days. The mummies would start liquefying in matter of hours if exposed. I think the best example of how those would look would be Oetzi:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman" target="_blank">Ötzi the Iceman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>"The body was at first thought to be a modern corpse, like several others which had been recently found in the region."This is pretty much a running joke with bodies from oxygen deprived sites. One of famous from Poland was when a sacrificial body was found in marshes. It's origin wasn't clear, but dating was. Before archaeologists made any statements though... one of locals admitted to murdering his wife and dumping her body there.BTW, the "mummy" reference could sound a bit off - imagine a body of bones and skin; flesh and intestines sucked out.</blockquote>