MUMMIFICATION

STEPS TO MUMMIFICATION

• The body is taken to the tent known as the place of purification.
• Next the organs are removed from the body.
• Then the brain is pulled out through the nose with a hook.
• Then the body is covered and stuffed with salt so it will dry out
• Then after 40 days the body is covered with water from the Nile.

NEXT STEPS....

• All the organs except for the heart are put in jars the heart is put back.
• Finally the body is covered again with good-smelling oils and wrapped in linen.
• Then the body is placed in a sarcophagus.
• Then the sarcophagus is placed in the pyramid.

HERE ARE SOME UNWRAPPED MUMMIES

WHY DID THEY MAKE MUMMIES?

• The earliest ancient Egyptians buried their dead in small pits in the desert.
• The heat and dryness of the sand dehydrated the bodies creating natural mummies.
• The Egyptians didn't know another way to preserve a body other than mummifying.

EGYPTIANS MADE MUMMIES BEACUSE...

• They believed that in the afterlife the person needed to have their bodies and possessions.
• They needed their bodies in the afterlife.
• It was the only way they knew how to preserve the bodies.
• It kept the body safe.
• If kept the body from rotting.

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