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Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities said archaeologists excavated the mummy in Saqqara, a town south of Cairo. The Ministry of Antiquities is planning to announce additional details about the discovery at the end of the month.
An ancient Egyptian papyrus version of Mummification for Dummies has been revealed by a Danish Egyptologist as the oldest how-to guide yet found.
The detailed instructions on the circa 3,500-year-old item adds details to the only two other guides known and predates them by more than 1,000 years. The papyrus is more than 19 feet long, according to a release from the University of Copenhagen.
Known as the Papyrus Louvre-Carlsberg manuscript, the papyrus had been split in two, with one piece at the Louvre Museum in Paris and the other in the University of Copenhagen’s Papyrus Carlsberg Collection.
Now that the pandemic panic has subsided, there’s enough toilet paper to go around that kids can once again make it go around their bodies and turn themselves into Egyptian mummy lookalikes – or at least the closest they can come to movie mummies. To look like the real thing in museums takes a lot more work, and to actually create a real mummy (we’re not recommending this since it first requires a body) like the ancient Egyptians is mostly a mystery due to the dearth of written instructions. That changed recently when an Egyptologist at the University of Copenhagen managed to piece together various fragments of an ancient 3,500-year-old embalming guide and recreated what is now the world’s oldest mummy manual.
In ancient Egypt, embalming was considered a sacred art, and knowledge of the process was the preserve of very few individuals. Most secrets of the art were probably passed on orally from one embalmer to the other, Egyptologists believe, so written e