Dr Mennat-Allah El Dorry, an archaeologist and archaeobotanist who specialises in the history of food, says that the cuisine Egyptian rulers prepared for the afterlife are well documented ...

they know more about the types of substances Egyptian embalmers used to preserve human bodies for the afterlife. From individual mummies and ancient texts, researchers had made some hunches about ...

Now scientists have identified the compounds in the balms used to mummify the organs of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman ... they washed out the body cavity with spices and palm wine, sewed the ...

As a result, Strlič and his team used gas ... UCL “To the ancient Egyptians, mummification was an important mortuary practice aimed at preserving the body and soul for the afterlife through ...

Is there an afterlife? If so, what does it look like? But a question you may not have asked yourself is: what does the afterlife smell like? To ancient Egyptians ... wine used in the preparation ...

Most of what we know about ancient Egyptian mummification ... mentions the use of natron to dehydrate the body. But there are very few details about the specific spices, oils, resins, and other ...

Were ancient Egyptians ... and death in ancient Egypt. Discover how they thought about death, why they invested so much in life after death, and how their belief in the afterlife shaped Egyptian ...

Joann explains the importance of the afterlife for Ancient Egyptians. She looks at some of the items that would be left in the tomb for use in the afterlife. Through studying the Book of the Dead ...

Ancient Egyptians depended on ... it makes sense that it also factored into the Egyptians’ theology and their descriptions of the afterlife. Egyptian tombs were equipped with everything that ...