Archaeologists unearth ancient Egyptian mummification workshop

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The two ancient workshops unearthed at the site were used to mummify humans and sacred animals about 2,400 years ago, according to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. These rooms were found to contain two stone beds used to rest human bodies for the mummification process, and their dimensions were about two metres long, one metre wide, and 50 cm high. The animal mummification workshop was a separate rectangular building made of bricks with mud and stone, divided into a number of rooms and halls, inside which a large number of pottery items of different shapes and sizes were found along with linen, embroidery tools and some bronze tools, the secretary general of the Supreme Council for Archeology said. Matching the discovered chemical traces with descriptions on the exterior of unearthed containers at the site, scientists could unravel fresh details about the specific materials used in the mummification process.