Enlarge / Illustration of an embalming scene in an underground chamber. Nikola Nevenov reader comments 14 with 0 posters participating Share this story Most of what we know about ancient Egyptian mummification techniques comes from a few ancient texts. In addition to a text called The Ritual of Embalming, Greek historian Herodotus, in his Histories, mentions ..
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Pompeii Archaeological Park reader comments 50 with 30 posters participating Share this story Archaeologists working in Pompeii recently unearthed the tomb and partially mummified remains of a man who died a few decades before the eruption. The man, Marcus Venerius Secundio, according to his epitaph, had once been enslaved, but by the end of his ..
reader comments 37 with 27 posters participating Share this story Egyptologists have recently translated the oldest-known mummification manual. Translating it required solving a literal puzzle; the medical text that includes the manual is currently in pieces, with half of what remains in the Louvre Museum in France and half at the University of Copenhagen in ..