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Early Ancient Egypt Embalming Mummy



Early ancient Egyptians put the Embalming means removing the eternal Any dead bodies that still have skin

organs and drying out the body of the dead.

dead in reed baskets and then on it are mummies. Mummies are

When embalming you always start with

were put into the dessert and then removing the brain with a hook, you first stick preserved bodies of people and



were buried in hot sand. the hook up the nose and twist and turn until animals.

the brain becomes into small pieces and are

Sometimes dead bodies were also

able to be pulled out. After removing the brain Some mummies are usually found

thrown into sand pits instead of you would next remove the eternal organs

in extreme climates like dry sand

also being laid in reed baskets. which are the intestines, liver, lungs, and



stomach. Once the eternal organs are removed and some where freezing cold, this



The heat and dryness of the sand they are put into separate jars called canopic process is called natural mummies,

jar. When they put the eternal organs into the

dehydrated the bodies quickly extreme climates like hot and cold

jars they then stuff the empty body with packs

creating lifelike and natural of Natron for 40 days, Natron is salt that stop the process of decaying.



mummies. absorbs all moisture. After 40 days when you



remove the Natron packs, the body is flattened



and needed to be stuff with linen. After that



they were coated in ointments, oils, and resin



to keep the skin supple and lifelike, and then



were wrapped in strips of linen.





This is (ice man)



He was found in cold climates.



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