What Is Mummification?

 

The Ancient Egyptians used a sophisticated method of wrapping and embalming to preserve a dead body for the afterlife. This was not easy to do; it took more than 70 days to finish and skilled people called embalmers.

 

The Mummification Process;

 

First of all, his body is taken to a tent known as ‘ibu’ or the ‘place of purification’. There the embalmers wash his body with good-smelling wine and rinse it with water from the Nile. Then one of the embalmer’s makes a cut in the left side of the body and removes all of the internal organs (apart from the heart). It is important to remove these because they are the first part of the body to rot and decompose. Then a long hook is inserted into the nose to hook and pull out the brain.