CHEMISTRY
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-05-18_J_03.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from beside a mummy from Cairo, Egypt.</a>)  To remove all the moisture from a body, natron, a variety of this, was applied both inside & outside the <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-05-18_J_03a.jpg" target="_blank">corpse</a>'
salt