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Essay Galaxy - Mummies and Embalming Mummies and Embalming

In Ancient Egypt when a person died his body was embalmed and made into a mummy. The ancient Egyptians believed that a person's spirit and soul continued to live after death and that it returned to its tomb to visit. For this reason it was very important to save the body in as good shape as possible. Mummies have been known to last for thousand of years. Poor Egyptians did not have fancy burials and mummification like the noblemen and kings and queens. It took about seventy days to make the mummy. First they took out the inner organ, like the brain, the liver, the intestines, and the lungs. These were embalmed and put into canopic jars. For a while the heart was left in its place. Much later, it was taken out and a scarab was put in its place. Natron was used to embalm everything. Even small bundles of rags sere soaked in natron and stuffed into the bod....

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