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The origin of embalming

What Christians don’t do is, they don’t anoint their dead after three days of death, people who have died were pickled in vinegar and wine. Even the Greeks have gone as far as sometimes using honey. Applying spices and perfumed ointments to cut down on purification was so common a practice that the English word embalming had as its original meaning, “to put on balm.” However, the word is used to describe the introduction of tenets into the body to make sure that the body will be preserved. The art and techniques of embalming began in ancient Egypt.

Excerpted from Who Rolled The Stone? by Dr. Malachi Z. York