Tagged: mummification

Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt has been able to help reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ancient Egyptians for the afterlife. It is the oldest surviving manual on mummification yet discovered. In...

Archaeologists in Egypt made a surprising discovery dating back more 2,500 years near the country’s famed pyramids south of Cairo. Their findings, which include a mummification workshop and a shaft, used as a communal burial place, are located at the vast Saqqara necropolis part of...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery surrounding the mummified body of a 300-year-old lederhosen-wearing Austrian priest. The corpse, which was given the nickname “Leather Franzy” by locals, caused a stir when it was found to have not decayed – despite being buried in 1746. Now...