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A recipe for mummy preservation existed 1,500 years before the Pharaohs

  • Written by Jana Jones, Research Fellow in Ancient History, Macquarie University
A recipe for mummy preservation existed 1,500 years before the PharaohsThe Turin mummy was deliberately preserved, not just desiccated by dry, hot sands. R. Bianucci, Author provided

Ancient Egypt continues to throw up one fabulous surprise after another.

Today my colleagues and I published our analysis of an intact Egyptian prehistoric body (from around 3700-3500 BC) that had been housed in a museum in Turin, Italy,...