Mummifying Alan: Egypt’s Last Secret
IT is a mystery that’s baffled scientists for centuries: how were the ancient Egyptians able to preserve pharaohs for millennia?
For years Stephen Buckley has been investigating embalming techniques in his garden shed using, among other things, pigs’ legs and Tupperware containers.
Now, terminally-ill Torquay taxi driver Alan Billis has donated his body so that Buckley can create a 21st-century mummy.