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In Luke 23:56 the women prepare "spices and perfumes" to be used in preparing Christ's body for burial. What spices would have been used for embalming? Was there an established process understood for embalming bodies by first century standards?

by /u/howtoreadspaghetti in /r/AskHistorians

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