Resins used to prepare bodies for the afterlife are found in vessels in an ancient workshop.
Labelled pots found in a 2,500-year-old embalming workshop have revealed the plant and animal extracts used to prepare ancient Egyptian mummies — including ingredients originating hundreds and even thousands of kilometres away.
That has now changed thanks to an underground embalming workshop discovered in 2016 at Saqqara, an ancient Egyptian burial ground in use from 2900or earlier. The site also includes burial chambers, and it is likely that elite members of society were interred there, the authors say. Inside the Saqqara workshop, which dates to 664–525, archaeologists discovered dozens of ceramic vessels used in the embalming process, many labelled with the ingredients they contain and their use.
But the researchers also identified two surprising ingredients: one resin called elemi, which comes fromtrees that grow in rainforests in Asia and Africa; and another called dammar that comes from“Egypt was resource poor in terms of many resinous substances, so many were procured or traded from distant lands,” says Carl Heron, an archaeological scientist at the British Museum in London.Ancient trade networks connected India and southeast Asia with the Mediterranean region.
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