Mummy Whisperer
Mummy science often requires teams of anthropologists, archaeologists and medical professors working together on ancient relics. Mummies come in many varieties worldwide, Beckett says, from the elaborately-prepared Egyptian mummies (dried with natron, a salt mixture used for drying in the desert air, their internal organs removed in some cases by skilled surgeons) to the Inca mummies of the Andes (left to dry naturally in the dry air of the mountains and Peru's Atacama desert). Ref. Source 7