What is black goo in Prometheus?

Keeping this in view, what is the black goo?

The black goo was analysed 20 years ago and found to be made from pistacia tree resin. Egyptian, 19th Dynasty (1292 BC–1189 BC) Find out more about this object. In addition to mummy cases, black goo was also painted on funerary statues of deities.

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Also question is, why did the engineer drink the black goo in Prometheus?

That certainly seems to be the case: we see an engineer, apparently left alone on a barren earth as his fellows ship out, who consciously sacrifices himself by drinking black goo that causes his body to crumble into little bits of DNA that spread throughout the world.

What killed the engineers in Prometheus?

One of the Engineers gets killed by the closing door on his way into the room with the large stone head and urns containing the black substance. other Engineers are found elsewhere, while one single Engineer survived in stasis, with the ship set to take off and carry its cargo and the Engineers onboard to Earth.