"Earliest surviving mummification manual discovered" Topic

"There are numerous sources for the funerary rituals and spells Egyptians used to aid the dead over the threshold of the afterlife. They were written on papyrus and linen mummy wrappings, painted on coffins and carved on walls, texts now known collectively as the Book of the Dead. Mummification was an essential part of Egyptian funerary practice, the means by which the body would be able to rejoin the soul in the afterlife, but very little written material detailing the process has survived. Egyptologists believe this was deliberate, that the sacred art was transmitted orally from embalmer to embalmer.

Only two papyri dedicated to mummification were previously known, but now a third has been found in an unexpected context: in the middle of a medical text on herbal treatments and swellings of the skin. Written back and front over 20 feet in length, it is second longest surviving Egyptian …"

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Armand

Can you imagine the training for that, er, profession?

"Yeah, just stick your arm way up in there and pull out all the slimy stuff. What? No, we don't have to do that, that's what you first-year apprentices are for…"

;-)

Ha!Ha!….

Armand