How to Make a Mummy in 70 Days or Less
For thousands of years, ancient Egypt’s professional embalmers blended science and magic to unite body and soul for the hereafter.
Throughout the 1800s, the new archaeological discipline of Egyptology fed a keen public appetite for stories about pyramids and mummies. An 1869 story by Louisa May Alcott, “Lost in a Pyramid,” recounts an archaeologist bringing down a curse on himself when he destroys the mummy of a young girl. “I sometimes wonder if I am to share the curse,” recounts his assistant later, “For I’ve a vein of superstition in me, and that poor little mummy haunts my dreams still.”
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/magazine/2017/03-04/egyptian-mummification-technique-process-purpose/
