The Egyptians were famous throughout the Mediterranean for their medical skills, which were eventually passed on the Greek and the Roman doctors that followed them. The Egyptians were experienced in dividing bodies because, believing that their souls needed an earthly body. They preserved their dead as mummies.
They removed their internal organs, dried and bandaged bodies were once observed as useless curiosities to be unwrapped, uncovered their jewellery, then discarded, and the history is full of horrific stories of unwanted mummies being burnt as torches, ground into stain, processed into brown paper or even used as stomach medicine for the rich and innocent.
British Museum
Nowadays, the long-deceased have changes and it is no longer considered appropriate to destroy a mummy out of curiosity. However, the countless mummies, already unwrapped, stored in the world's museums and colleges an outstanding source of ancient human tissue. The Manchester Mummy Project, led by Professor Rosalie David, has worked closely with Manchester University's medical teams to develop a multi-disciplinary procedure for the examination of ancient human remains.
BBC History. 2014. Beneath The Bandages. [ONLINE] Avaiable at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/egypt_importance_01.shtml [Accessed 20 May 14]
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