@inproceedings{0868bde5be074adfb3c64b51c079c746,
title = "New perspectives on the development of mummification and funerary practices during the pre- and early dynastic periods",
abstract = "Microscopic analysis of textiles from burials dating to the earliest periods of Egyptian civilisation has shown surprising developments in funerary practices and beliefs. These include the use of resins some 2000 years before it is currently believed to have been used in mummification. The author has analysed textiles on site in Egypt for the ACE and various European missions, and in museum collections.",
keywords = "mummification, textiles, resins, Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt",
author = "Jana Jones",
year = "2007",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789042917170",
series = "Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta",
publisher = "Peeters",
pages = "979--989",
editor = "Jean-Claude Goyon and Christine Cardin",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the ninth International Congress of Egyptologists = Actes du neuvi{\`e}me Congr{\`e}s international des {\'e}gyptologues, Grenoble 6-12 September 2004",
note = "International Congress of Egyptologists (9th : 2004) ; Conference date: 06-09-2004 Through 12-09-2004",
}