DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT
The knowledge acquired during more than 20 years of work focused on the processes of Mummification, Physical Anthropology and Palaeopathology in more than 15 International Projects in Egypt, is made available to students interested in the knowledge of this millenary practice that continues to dazzle all scholars and curious people attracted by the civilisation of Ancient Egypt.
First, we will study the processes of putrefaction that occur in a body after death, in order to better understand each of the steps necessary for a successful mummification process. We will review the different types of mummification in other cultures around the world, as a preamble to the study of Egyptian mummification, the most sophisticated of all known mummifications.
We will study the reasons for mummification, understood as a process in which the physical cannot be separated from the religious and magical. The development and evolution of mummification processes over more than 4,000 years of mummification will be explained.
Finally, we will look at new research methods, new findings, the latest publications and the current state of the art. New research, new methods of study, new techniques, which broaden the knowledge and help to complete the many questions that arise in the study of this very attractive practice.