Chinchorro mummification may have originated as a form of art therapy, study suggests

In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of ...
Yahoo

2,300-year-old Egyptian mummification workshops found at Saqqara

Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...
Ancient Origins

Ancient Art Therapy? Chinchorro Mummification as Emotional Healing

The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...
Hyperallergic

Archaeologists Uncover Largest Trove of Mummification Materials in Egypt

Embalming jars with the heads of people and animals found in Abu Sir, Egypt. (photo by Petr Kosarek, Czech Institute of Egyptology/Charles University, Prague; all images courtesy Egyptian Ministry of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Reveal New Details on the Mummification Process

The largest cache of embalming vessels discovered in Egypt included pots containing resins, oils and myrrh. Petr Košárek, Charles University Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a cache of ...
CNN

Biggest-ever cache of mummification tools unearthed in Egypt

Deep inside a shaft in the cemetery of Abusir, near Cairo, a team of Egyptian and Czech Egyptologists has found a significant cache of equipment used more than 2,500 years ago to embalm mummies. The ...