![]() That's because it's the mineral salt the ancient Egyptians used as part of their mummification rituals. Natron, the stuff for which the lake is named, should also sound a bit familiar to you. Perhaps you have recently heard about Tanzania's Lake Natron, a body of water that has become famous on the Internet over the last couple of days because of the work of artist Nick Brandt, who took some eerie, posed photos of the calcified corpses of birds that he found along the lake's shore.
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