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Dead sea asphalt in egyptian mummies: Molecular evidence

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  1. Institut für Erdöl und Organische Geochemie der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich GmbH, D-5170, Jülich

    J. Rullkötter

  2. Geoscience Group, Isotope Department, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    A. Nissenbaum

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We would like to thank Dr. M. J. Hughes and Dr. T. G. H. James (British Museum) for supplying the mummy samples and Drs. M. Radke and R. G. Schaefer (KFA Jülich) for extraction/liquid chromatography and gas chromatography, respectively. The help of U. Disko and F. J. Keller in the mass spectrometric measurements is gratefully acknowledged. The sample of the floating block asphalt was kindly provided by Prof. Z. Aizenshtat (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem). The manuscript was typed by B. Schmitz.

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Rullkötter, J., Nissenbaum, A. Dead sea asphalt in egyptian mummies: Molecular evidence. Naturwissenschaften 75, 618–621 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00366476

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