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The article presents a report from an April 11-12, 2014 conference in Munich, Germany on the history of transporting human remains in Europe. Topics of presentations delivered included the practice of boiling the flesh off of bones of venerated corpses to make relics in the Middle Ages, the preservation and burial of human hearts in the early modern era, and graffiti of vulvae and penises drawn by religious pilgrims in the Netherlands and in England.