A remarkable discovery at Saqqara has unveiled an ancient Egyptian embalming workshop, revealing mummification as a sophisticated blend of art and chemistry. Analysis of vessels uncovered complex ...

Embalming in ancient Egypt predated the pharaohs, an ancient mummy reveals. That would mean that the practice began at least 1,500 years earlier than once thought. The mummy — an adult male curled on ...

She adds: "One of the exciting new pieces of information the text provides us with concerns the procedure for embalming the dead person's face. We get a list of ingredients for a remedy consisting ...

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 ...