Ancient Egyptian funerary workers prepare a body for mummification. The worker on the right, the embalmer, is beginning to wrap the artificially dehydrated body in linen and the man on the left is decorating the sarcophagus the mummy will lay in. After a 19th century print by an unidentified artist.

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