To confirm her hypothesis, she called in Buckley. This early recipe was an important milestone in the development of mummification techniques. His goal is to learn more about how funerals and civilizations developed over time. To confirm her hypothesis, she called in Buckley. Armed now with research suggesting more advanced burial techniques than ever imagined for the early Egyptians, Buckley hopes to look at later burial grounds. With Buckley's background in organic chemistry and his interest in ancient Egyptian history, he was able to provide important support in the investigation of the cloths. This early recipe was an important milestone in the development of mummification techniques. Buckley led a team of researchers in discovering that the early Egyptians purposely mixed together chemicals and then applied that recipe onto bodies before burials. First, she scrutinized the cloth under a microscope. Bodies that were found in the hot and dry desert were thought to have been preserved naturally. He was able to determine that the linens were covered in a mixture of chemicals. While archaeologists have indeed found remains of people who lived earlier than this, there was not enough evidence to suggest the presence of embalming agents. New evidence suggests that the ancient Egyptians may have understood the science of mummification much earlier than researchers previously believed. This process was part of the mummification ceremony. It appeared to her that the cloth was coated in resin.