Mummification

Egyptian mummification

Mummification is the Egyptian way of preserving Pharaohs, great warriors or priests. The Egyptians believed there was an after life. They wanted their kings and queens to be comfortable when they died. They made them food, clothing, and their average house hold items.

They mummified them by first cleaning the body with water. Then they would start the brain drain process. That is done by shoving brain hook up his or her nose and in to the skull. They would then hook onto the brain and pull. Then the incision was done. The person who makes the incision is called the cutter. The embalmer, which was lik a priest, would then remove the organs, but he would leave the heart, which was needed in the afterlife. Then they would stuff the body with natron. After that they would wrap the body in hundreds of yards of linen. Then the mummy is laid in his/her sarcophagus. Some mummies are preserved wet, some are preserved frozen, and others are preserved dry.

The Egyptians believed that there were six important things that made up a human: the physical body, shadow, name, spirit (ka), personality (ba), and immortality (akh). All of these are needed to live in the afterlife. If a person didn't have even one of those things he/she wouldn't be mummified.

Canopic jars. The human-headed Imsety looked after the liver; Hapy, a baboon, guarded the lungs; Duamutef, a jackal, protected the stomach; and Qebehsenuef, a falcon, cared for the intestines.

Materials used in mummification: linen sawdust lichen beeswax resin natron onion Nile mud linen pads Mummification tools: Brain hooks Oil jar Funnel Embalmer's knife

By:Andrew & Austen