The Stages of Mummification
- Wash the body with salty water. Put a hook up the nose to pulverise and remove the brain.
- Make a cut in the body and remove internal organs placing them into separate canopic jars (not the heart.
- Rinse the inside of the body with spices and then coat with resin to seal it. Cover body in natron (salt).
- Leave for 70 days until the body has dried. Replace the heart and fill the cavity with linen to look human.
- Place amulets (good luck charms) on the chest and wrap the whole body in bandages.
- Put on the death mask and place the Book of Death into the inner coffin.
- Place the body into the beautifully decorated stone sarcophagus.
Mummification Part 1
Mummification Part 2
Mummification Part 3
Mummification Part 4
Mummification Part 5
Mummification Part 6
Mummification Part 7
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