"Ancient Egypt: How to Make a Mummy", with Hugo D. Cook.

How, and why, did the Egyptians mummify people? On this journey through life and death in ancient Egypt, discover how the process unfolded in a step-by-step guide, from which amulets to place where on the body, to how exactly one must ritually beat the priest in charge of slicing open the corpse. Unwrap the wonderful world of ancient Egypt through the art of mummification. How did they use astronomical knowledge in the process? Why did they build catacombs filled to the brim with baboon mummies? What did ancient thieves gain from burning royal mummies inside their pyramids? Where did they think they were going after death? Who used ground-up mummies in famous recent paintings? Find out all this and more with Egyptologist and award-winning author, Hugo D. Cook.

Hugo D. Cook is a highly energetic Egyptologist and classicist with degrees in Egyptology from Oxford and Cambridge, and one of the UK’s most widely followed public voices on the ancient world. An award‑winning author for his Macmillan‑published Tales of Ancient Egypt, he combines cutting‑edge scholarship with storytelling that reaches millions, from classrooms to TikTok.