Research Fellow in Ancient History, Macquarie University
Jana Jones is a Macquarie University Research Fellow (2014 to 2017) in the Department of Ancient History. Her current research project is entitled 'Secrets of the Ancient Egyptian embalmers: an archaeological, historical and scientific investigation of the origins and development of mummification'.
She holds a PhD in Egyptology from Macquarie University.
A recipe for mummy preservation existed 1,500 years before the Pharaohs
Aug 16, 2018 20:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Ancient Egypt continues to throw up one fabulous surprise after another. Today my colleagues and I published our analysis of an intact Egyptian prehistoric body (from around 3700-3500 BC) that had been housed in a...
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