THE MUMMIFICATION PROCESS

The ancient Egyptians are famous for making
mummies. But it took them centuries to figure
out the best ways to preserve their dead.
Their techniques were so good that we still
find Egyptian mummies today! Embalmers
performed the mummification process. It was
complex, took many days, and always began
the same way…with a corpse!

Step 1: Wash the body with palm wine and water from the Nile River.
Step 2: Make an incision on the left-side of the abdomen.
Step 3: Remove the lungs, stomach, liver and intestines through the incision.
Step 4: Push a brain hook up into the left nostril and jiggle it around to
liquify the brain.
Step 5: Turn the body over and allow the brain to flow out through the
nostrils and into a bowl.
Step 6: Place the preserved liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines in
canopic jars.

Step 7: Bury the body in a kind of salt called
natron to dry it out.
Step 8: After 40 days, remove the natron. The
body will be darker and much thinner.
Step 9: Wash the body and stuff the cavity
with resin-soaked linen.
Step 10: Call the make-up artist to apply makeup
to the face. He might want to fit
the deceased with a wig.
Step 11: Rub the body in scented oil.
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Step 12: Brush the body in melted pine resin (sap) to seal it.
Step 13: Place a golden plate with a Wadjet eye (the eye of Horus)
over the incision.
Step 14: Waft incense to purify the air.
Step 15: Wrap the body in linen.
Step 16: Insert amulets (charms) in-between the layers of linens.
Step 17: Place a vulture amulet at the throat of the deceased.
Step 18: Place a special amulet called a heart scarab
over the heart.
Step 19: Place a mask over the face of the deceased.
Step 20: Label the deceased with their name.
Step 21: Place the mummy in a sarcophagus.
Step 22: Place the sarcophagus in a tomb.





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