The Myths vs Reality of Mummification

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We're obsessed with them, course we are, and we have been for thousands of years. And that's what we're talking about on today's episode. But we're gonna start by taking you back to the early 1820s. When an audience of Londoners stood agog As the explorer, Giovanni Belzoni, a man who'd recently returned from Egypt with a trove of ancient treasures, peeled back. A pile of dusty bandages to reveal.

The sunken Dessiccated. Of a corpse. This.

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