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CAIRO: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said Thursday that researchers have resolved the secrets of the mummification process used in ancient Egypt.
According to Arab news, a team of researchers from Tubingen and Ludwig Maximilian universities in Germany, in close cooperation with the National Research Center in Cairo, set out to conduct research to study materials used by ancient Egyptian embalmers.
Ancient Egypt
The researchers analyzed organic remains found in pottery pots explored in a mummification workshop excavated by the German-Egyptian archaeological team led by Ramadan Badri in Saqqara in 2018.
Their research work was part of a tombs project focusing on the El-Sawy period between 664 and 525 B.C. Secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri said that the results of the research study were published in the scientific journal Nature on February, 1.
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The researchers studied the organic remains to ascertain their chemical properties and to identify every material. The research concluded three key pieces of information about the mummification process: the material, its name and its place of use.
Mostafa Waziri said that the finding updates familiar writings about ancient Egyptian mummification techniques in ancient Egypt. Research discovered that a number of materials used in the process of mummification were imported from the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia.
Susanna Beck, deputy head of the mission said that the study was conducted by using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry on the materials.
