Oh, huh. I knew about the flooding (I think I learned that from playing Gabriel Knight ), but I hadn't thought about the embalming aspect.

There was another mausoleum-type structure that was just a large black cube with a four-by-four grid of blocks on each side. I assume it was for ashes, but only one of the blocks had a name on it, and the person died in the 70s. I wonder what the rest of it was intended for.