A new TED video goes through the process by which Egyptians took a dead body and mummified it. It’s a rather fascinating and also cleverly animated video that makes the process very simple to understand while also delving into the science of decomposition.
The video description reads:
As anyone who’s seen a mummy knows, ancient Egyptian priests went to a lot of trouble to evade decomposition. But how successful were they? Len Bloch details the mummification process and examines its results thousands of years later.
For those of you interested in how to perform a mummification, head on in!