Dr. Campbell Price

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · Inside the Egyptian Underworld · 18 May 2026 podcast

So mummification, much, much, much has been written about this, basically involves dehydrating the body, anointing it with oils and resins and then wrapping it.

So these are three things that you would encounter in a temple that you would do to a divine statue.

You purify it with salt, a form of sodium compound, called natron in Egyptology.

So you wash it, you dry it in some form.

Some people think you do it as a dry, kind of pile on some salt.

And then that just takes out all the liquid that's in the human body.

Some people think it was maybe...

a bath.

There's a great high camp 1950s film, The Mummy, with Christopher Lee in it.

And in it, the princess is put in this bubble bath of Natron and she looks very...

I don't think the reality was quite so demure.

Anyway, so you dry the body out, then you fragrance it.

Now this is important.

Yes, there's a practical thing of dead bodies don't smell very nice if they've been left out in the heat, but also smell incense in ancient Egyptian, the word for incense means to cause to be divine.

So there is a word association going on there.

You apply the unguents, a word I absolutely love, that smell nice.

And yes, that has antibacterial properties.

It does make the body smell nice, but it also makes them smell like a god.

And then finally you wrap the body.

And this idea of the sark being a radiant, brilliant, white linen covered body.

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