Man volunteers for mummification

A dead man has become the first person in more than 3,000 years to be mummified like Tutankhamun.

Man volunteers for mummification

A dead man has become the first person in more than 3,000 years to be mummified like Tutankhamun.

Alan Billis - who died in January from lung cancer aged 61 - volunteered to have his body put through a number of special techniques used by ancient Egyptians to mummify pharaohs, which included taking out his organs and sterilising his corpse before re-packing it with bags of linen to restore its appearance.

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