2,700-Year-Old Mummy Head Provides First Molecular Evidence of Aloe in Egyptian Embalming

An interdisciplinary team at Marburg University has combined modern natural product analysis with Egyptology and the history of pharmacy to investigate the materials used by ancient Egyptians for embalming. Their research on a 2,700-year-old mummy head has yielded the first molecular evidence linking aloe to Egyptian embalming practices. This finding sheds new light on the composition of embalming substances used thousands of years ago.

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