The study’s co-author, Jana Jones, an Egyptologist at Australia’s Macquarie University, previously explored fragments of clothing from mummy funeral wrappings from around the same time as Fred but from a different location and found evidence that hinted at mummy embalming. However, the study examined the remains of the mummy and discovered that not only had the mummy actually been embalmed by humans, but he had been preserved using a recipe similar to the ones used 2,500 years later on pharaohs and noblemen like King Tut during Egypt’s peak mummification period, according to Live Science. Fred was believed to have been naturally preserved by the extreme desert heat. Believed to be around 5,600 years old, the Turin mummy was originally thought to be a preservation anomaly. After being brought to the museum originally, the mummy had not undergone any additional preservation methods, which meant that he would be the perfect subject for investigation in terms of how he was preserved the first time around.
A team of researchers made their conclusions after examining “Fred,” an exceptionally well-preserved mummy discovered more than 100 years ago and housed in Turin’s Egyptian Museum since 1901, according to National Geographic. Turin Mummy A new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows strong evidence that embalming practices in Ancient Egypt were in place more than 1,500 years earlier than previously believed.
5,600-Year-Old Mummy Reveals Oldest Egyptian Embalming Recipe Ever Found By Caroline Redmond Published AugUpdated MaFred proves that Egyptians had been using embalming practices for more than 1,500 years longer than scientists believed.
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