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The Skeptics Guide #917 - Feb 4 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Biomolecular Analyses Enable New Insights Into Ancient Egyptian Embalming

A new article is just published yesterday in nature called biomolecular analyses enable new insights into ancient Egyptian embalming. It's really interesting because it combines archaeological, philological and organic residue analyses. They found a bunch of pottery that was in like really, really good condition that has text still on the outside,. These different vessels were actually labeled.

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