However carefully the preliminary rites of embalmment and burial might have been performed, however sumptuous the tomb wherein the dead man reposed, he was never- The soul.
2
Other subjects on which he published papers were the inflammation of turpentine and other essential oils by nitric acid, and the methods of embalmment practised by the Egyptians.
3
The costliest process of embalmment lasted no less than seventy days.
4
The ritual observed during the process of embalmment is preserved in late papyri in Paris and Cairo published by Maspero.
5
Traditionally, there is no autopsy, embalmment, or cremation.