Mummification is when the skin and the flesh of a coarse is preserved. Some mummies would be kept wet, most are frozen, and some are dehydrated. The operation could either be naturally or intentionally. If it happens naturally, it is the result of acid, or just dryness. The Egyptian mummies are intentionally made because of the drying of the body. By taking out all the moisture, you have removed all decay. By using a salt mixture called Natron they dry the body. Natron is a legitimate substance only found in riches among the Nile River. Natron is an addition of four different salts: sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium carbonate, which was used to alleviate the body. People were mummified because people of
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The process is long and expensive, it took three main people: the cutter, the scribe, and the embalmer. The cutter would cut the body, the scribe would say where the cutting should take place, and the embalmer would prepare the body and remove the organs.
King Tutankhamun was a famous Egyptian pharaoah in the 18th ancestry. He was born in 1342 bc in Ancient Egypt, he was buried in KV62, Egypt, his parents were Akhenaten and The Younger Lady. King Tutankahamun was also referred as king tut.
Like the larger part of the royal and independent population of ancient Egypt , King Tut was mummified. King Tut never left the Valleys of King even since his mummification. A mummification would occur in a workshop near a tomb, the mummification would often take about three months. The body will be stripped and placed onto a board. The brain is taken out with a hook through the nose. The brain cavity will later be filled with both resin and linen. They remove the chest, their organs and the heart. After the take out the organs they place them in Canonic jars that has a drying agent inside. The jars normally come in a set of four which represents the Horus’s four sons. The organs sometimes are wrapped into four packages and put in the back of the abdominal cavity. Also sometimes wrapped into one package which is placed on top of the mummy's legs. They do different procedures depending on the period
The process is long and expensive, it took three main people: the cutter, the scribe, and the embalmer. The cutter would cut the body, the scribe would say where the cutting should take place, and the embalmer would prepare the body and remove the organs.
King Tutankhamun was a famous Egyptian pharaoah in the 18th ancestry. He was born in 1342 bc in Ancient Egypt, he was buried in KV62, Egypt, his parents were Akhenaten and The Younger Lady. King Tutankahamun was also referred as king tut.
Like the larger part of the royal and independent population of ancient Egypt , King Tut was mummified. King Tut never left the Valleys of King even since his mummification. A mummification would occur in a workshop near a tomb, the mummification would often take about three months. The body will be stripped and placed onto a board. The brain is taken out with a hook through the nose. The brain cavity will later be filled with both resin and linen. They remove the chest, their organs and the heart. After the take out the organs they place them in Canonic jars that has a drying agent inside. The jars normally come in a set of four which represents the Horus’s four sons. The organs sometimes are wrapped into four packages and put in the back of the abdominal cavity. Also sometimes wrapped into one package which is placed on top of the mummy's legs. They do different procedures depending on the period