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Natron in Tanzania is the only regular breeding site for lesser flamingos in East Africa and it has experienced declining productivity alongside rising water levels in recent years.

Higher water levels also make lakes inhospitable by flooding nesting sites, as the team observed at Tanzania’s Lake Natron, the species’ only regular breeding site in East Africa.

But there are paths to mummified eternity that don’t involve canopic jars, natron salts, or brain-removing hooks.

Both workshops featured stone beds, clay pots, ritual vessels, natron salt, which is one of the main ingredients for mummification, and linens among other mummification instruments.

As a massive curtain of clouds lifted, we could see part of the Serengeti plains far beyond on the left, the sled-shaped Lake Natron way off in front and the remote volcano to our right, its top crowned with a cloud mass bigger than the mountain.