A taxi driver from Torquay has become the first person in 3,000 years to be mummified.
Alan Billis, who died in January, volunteered to undergo the procedure - which a scientist has been working on recreating for years - after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
The 61-year-old had the backing of his wife Jan, who said: "I'm the only woman in the country who's got a mummy for a husband."
The process of mummification has been filmed for a television documentary where Dr Stephen Buckley, a chemist and research fellow from York University, uses the same techniques that ancient Egyptians performed on Tutankhamun. Read More
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