First, they have to take out the guts and they have to scoop the brain out, and feed it to the cats. They have to leave the heart in the body because the egyptions believed the when the person reached the afterwords their heart would be weighed.
The next step took 70 days to complete! the makers of the mummies would cover the body with natron, then let it sit for almost two and a half months. Natron is a salt that you sprinkle in your french fries, but with a slightly different chemical. This nifty salt absorbs all the water from the body and kills bacteria on the corps. After being giving a salt bath, the body was