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.