Mummification: what is it and how can it occur? | Gene Hackman | The Guardian

found that parchment-like skin was seen as early as three days postmortem and leathery desiccated skin could appear within six days of death. The entire body could show evidence of mummification within 18 days of death 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/28/mummification-what-is-it-and-how-can-it-occur-gene-hackman

_- Steve