Dirty Jobs Of Mummification

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The first thing you do when you mummify someone is you take out there brains with a long hook. Then insert it in there nose and,then you move it up and down to get as much as you can out. Then you get all there organs out except the heart because the Egyptians believed that you need your heart so Anubis could weigh it in the after life.Then you put the you organs in canopic jar.
Dirty jobs of mummification are taking the organs out .Taking the brain out by using a long stick with a hook at the end.and also soaking in salt for 40 days and those are some dirty jobs of mummification .

and another dirty jobs of mummification are wrapping the body with lines fans putting the organs in

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