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181 | The Dead Preserved

Scott Abraham Miller

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Tied up deep beneath layers of wraps and chemicals and oils and lotions is a practice the dates back thousands of years—mummification. This practice has mystified historians and found a special place in entertainment in many forms, but how exactly did the process work and for what purposes? This episode will detail the careful procedures performed by embalmers to preserve the body in a unique state that was believed to maximize the dead individual’s chance for a fruitful afterlife.

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Links for Today:

  1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-excess/201705/sexual-mummification

  2. https://mylearning.org/stories/a-step-by-step-guide-to-egyptian-mummification/220?

  3. https://www.haikudeck.com/the-7-steps-of-mummification--uncategorized-presentation-NYOs6EpLxt (How to mummy)

  4. https://www.si.edu/spotlight/ancient-egypt/mummies

  5. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/mummies-101/ (Mummies for dummies)

  6. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2561280/Forget-coffins-MUMMIFIED-U-S-firm-offers-21st-century-version-ancient-Egyptian-burial-rites.html

  7. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2400-year-old-myths-of-myths/

  8. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/603939/mummy-myths (Mystical mummy myths)

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Abraham: The Boys Season 2 on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/The-Boys-Season-2/dp/B08C8NJQSH)

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