Examination of a mummy has revealed the original ancient Egyptian embalming recipe - first used to preserve bodies. A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from ...

Groundbreaking evidence from Modern France has revealed that early European aristocrats engaged in preservation rituals.

"Possibly the bodies belong to higher elites that were associated with the temple and animal cults that proliferated in the ...

The process of artificially preserving a dead body is called "embalming," and the methods used are as varied as the cultures themselves. Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient Egyptians ...

2500-2100BC) around the time Egyptians started using coffins more. These mummies are rare, but they show signs of being specially prepared by embalmers. Mummies from before the Old Kingdom period were ...

The process of artificially preserving a dead body is called "embalming," and the methods used are as varied as the cultures themselves. Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient Egyptians ...

Today the practice of embalming the dead might creep anyone out, but once upon a time this act was revered. Mummification stood as a symbol of the intrinsic belief of the ancient Egyptians- a life ...

The ancient Egyptians employed ... and that Egyptian mummification was somehow a driver towards early globalisation and global trade,” Stockhammer said. “Embalming was carried out in a well ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and ... that gold tongues "might have been the vogue for the embalming house in the area." During the latest dig ...

Mummification may never have been intended ... jars — jars adorned with the heads of gods — during the embalming process, Egyptians may have intended to imbue them with the godly spirit ...

Enter the embalmer's workshop, where you are to prepare the body of Ramose, officer to the king, for burial.The chief embalmer, Kha, will be watching your work closely. Complete your task ...

This was the embalming house of the Apis ... At Abydos, the burial ground of Egypt's first rulers, excavations have uncovered ibis mummies likely representing Thoth, the god of wisdom and writing.