Rest in pieces: 2,500-year-old mummies stored in Yemen museums are disintegrating because civil war has seen electricity cut off to machines preserving them

Mummified remains in Yemen are under threat from heat and humidity
Power cuts are disrupting dehumidifiers at Sanaa University
And sanctions have cut supplies of chemicals needed to preserve them
80 heritage sites damaged by airstrikes since conflict started in March 2015

Famine and disease haunt the living in war-torn Yemen.
And it seems not even the dead are being spared the calamities of the country's two-year civil war.
Ancient mummies are rotting in a major museum because power cuts are disrupting dehumidifiers and sanctions have cut supplies of chemicals needed to preserve them.

The 12 corpses, curled into the fetal position or swaddled in baskets, are 2,500 years old and have been lying beneath glass panes within the archaeology department in the capital Sanaa's main university.
They are just some of the objects and heritage sites that are being destroyed in the fighting, which has ruined the country's infrastructure.
More than 80 sites have been damaged by airstrikes and terrorist bombings since the conflict started in March 2015.

'The mummies have started to decay and are infected with bacteria. This is because we don't have electricity and the machines that are supposed to maintain them,' said Abdelrahman Jarallah, head of the university's antiquities department.
'We need some chemicals to sanitise the mummies every six months, and they aren't available due to the political situation.'
Funding to government bodies like the university have suffered from a struggle between Yemen's warring parties for control of the central bank.

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Pictures taken this week show the mummies displayed in glass cabinets at Sanaa University, in the Yemeni capital
The university has 12 corpses that are 2,500 years old. A Yemeni student is pictured looking at a millennia-old mummy
Some of the mummies at the university are barely recognisable as human remains
The mummies need to be be kept in carefully controlled environments

Hmm

rest in pieces