Deep inside a shaft in the cemetery of Abusir, near Cairo, a team of Egyptian and Czech Egyptologists has found a significant cache of equipment used more than 2,500 years ago to embalm mummies. The ...

Oscar Hult- Embalming at Washington County Museum October 20.jpg.jpeg Historian Oscar Hult will portray a mid-nineteenth century embalmer as he describes the embalming techniques used during the time ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...

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 ...

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Romans Altar to Sol: A rare 1,900-year-old monument dedicated to the Roman god of light and used in a secret underground ritual ...