Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1910 — Egypt’s Lost Art Discovered. [ARTICLE]

Egypt’s Lost Art Discovered.

Embalming that will maintain the human body a hundred ages—the lost art of Egypt—is said to have been by Homer J. Paar, a graduate of the School of Pharmacy of the University of Pittsburg. Paar has been experimenting on rodents, and has a number of mummy rats which he uses as paper weights on his desk, and one large one which he uses for a door-check. He claims that a body properly protected can be rendered immune to the disintegrating influence of time and would carry thousands of years Into the future its beauty of today.