HOW TO MAKE A MUMMY

STEP ONE

• The brain was taken out first by sticking a hook up the left nostril.
• They stuck a hook up it to to grab the brain.
• The brain was taken out using a tool called an embalmers knife or brain hook.

STEP TWO

• They then took out the stomach, liver and lungs.
• They made an incision on the left to get them out.
• Then they put the organs in canonic jars.
• They then stuffed the body with cotton.

STEP THREE

• Then the body was covered with natron and put on a slanted table.
• They put a jar near the bottom to let water dry out
• The body was dried out for forty days.

STEP FOUR

• After forty days, the mummy was cleaned off with oils and brushes to stop water.
• Then the body was covered with jewelry and sacred necklaces.
• Before the mummy was put in the sarcophagus it was wrapped with many layers of linen.
• Small dolls that looked like the mummy, called shabtis, were put in the wrappings.
• They were supposed to work in the fields for the mummy in the next life.

STEP FIVE

• Finally, the mummy was put in three coffins and the sarcophagus.
• The whole embalming process took seventy days.