Mummification Started More Than A Millennium Earlier Than We Thought
other Egyptians left no written record , but they had already figured out the skill behind making stilted mummies . An 11 - year written report on the presence of embalming agent in ancient funerary wrapper advertize the stemma of Egyptian cold gangrene back by more than a millennium . Theworkwas published inPLoS ONEthis hebdomad . mummify a eubstance rely on three fundamental steps : eviscerate , dry out out the soft tissue paper , and apply anti - bacterial balms ....