How to Make a Mummy: According to Bob Brier and Robert Wade March 27, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient
Checklist. You don’t believe in the resurrection of the dead? You are not squeamish about your body being messed around with after you have passed? You have no dangerous blood-bourne diseases? And you would like a form of immortality? Then why not volunteer to become an Egyptian mummy? This anyway is what happened 24 May […]
The Mummy, the Slitter and the Mortuary Mob February 20, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient
Been reading a lot about Egyptian mummies recently. There are nauseating details, intermershed with fascinating stuff. Here is the single most famous description to come down to us in Herodotus: The best process is this one: as much as possible of the brain is taken out through the nose with an iron hook, and what […]
