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Guest - Aislinn
Dyestuff Citizen Science.
09. Oktober 2026
This is a great project. I look forward to the results. Thanks for letting us know.
Guest - Aislinn
Time for...
09. Oktober 2026
Looks delicious!
Guest - Katrin
Sprang Discussion
18. September 2026
Hi Rachel, I have looked for more photos of you, but that was not very successful. I found a link on...
Guest - Beatrix
Sprang Discussion
15. September 2026
That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
Guest - Katrin
Sprang Discussion
15. September 2026
I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...
Mummification.
And now for something completely different: Researchers have found out details about how corpses in Egypt were mummified. There was a number of substances used, in specific mixtures for specific parts, and we now know this due to the discovery of an embalming workshop in Saqqara, dating to the 26th dynasty.
You can read more about it in this Open Access article at nature.com, or if you prefer a short German summary, here is one.
(I think I'd still prefer to get buried in a grave mound instead of getting mummified and put into a pyramid...)
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