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

Two historic mummification workshops — one for people and one other for animals — have been found at Saqqara in Egypt. 

The workshops date again round 2,300 years and had been in use between the late thirtieth dynasty and the early Ptolemaic interval. Throughout that point, Egypt misplaced its independence, first being conquered by the Persians after which by the Macedonian military of Alexander the Nice. After Alexander’s loss of life in 323 B.C., one in all his generals, Ptolemy I, took over Egypt, and his descendants dominated over the nation for practically three centuries. 

The human mummification workshop is product of mud brick and incorporates two beds that had been used to embalm individuals, and the stays of instruments and resin used within the embalming course of had been found inside, representatives from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities stated in a assertion.  

In the meantime, the animal mummification workshop has numerous pottery vessels and instruments used for embalming. In Egypt, animals reminiscent of cats, canine and birds related to deities had been routinely sacrificed and mummified for historic Egyptian burials and rituals.