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Thoroughly Modern Mummy
A man who donated his body to science last year has become the first person in 2000 years to be mummified like an ancient Egyptian. Reconstructing embalming practices from the time of the pharaohs, Egyptologist Bob Brier of the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University did everything from traveling to Egypt to gather materials to removing the brain of the deceased through the nose.
The point of the exercise was to better understand how ancient Egyptian embalmers produced their results. As a preservative, the researchers used...