Sunday, February 06, 2005

Mummy tar in ancient Egypt

http://www.geotimes.org/current/NN_mummytar.html
A new study of tars used in the mummification process suggests that the ancient Egyptians sourced tars from a number of different sources in Egypt and the Near East. This article, in Geotimes magazine, is a summary of an article which appears in the Journal of Geoarchaeology.

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