1.   Contemporary accounts describe corpses as slate-blue from lack of oxygen and hemorrhage into the skin.

2.   One doctor in the city describes corpses abandoned for so long that dogs had started to feed on them.

3.   They describe animal corpses, piles of rotting fruit and even human feces being attacked in a matter of minutes by dung scarab beetles and metallic ottatid flies.

4.   After the body was exhumed earlier this year, Vatican officials described the corpse as being in remarkably well-preserved condition.

5.   Refugees who fled Gudermes before the blockade have described corpses lining sidewalks and devastation of the town.

6.   Refugees who fled Gudermes before the blockade described corpses lining sidewalks and devastation of the town.

7.   Refugees who fled the fighting described corpses lining sidewalks and devastation of the town.

8.   When the body was exhumed earlier this year, Vatican officials described the corpse as remarkably well preserved.