Natron

blisters caused by fluids in the body, and also excluded air contact. An absence of air causes a body to decompose slower (Partridge ??). The body would deteriorate but it would be less unpleasant to handle until burial. Natron is a desiccant. By covering and filling a body with natron, it is possible to completely dry out a body. This stabilized the mummy so that it could remain unburied…

need their bodies in the afterlife. The mummification process took 70 days. The process began with the removal of all the organs including the brain which they thought was not important. Then the body was stuffed with linen cloth which was soaked in natron salt to dry out the corpse. When the body dried out they replaced the soaked cloth with new dry cloth. Next the body was wrapped with a thick layer of linen cloth. As the body was wrapped Egyptian charms were placed inside the layers of cloth…

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removed, dried and coated in resin and either preserved in their own special containerscalled canopic jars or wrapped in linen and put back inside the body. The body is then stuffed with linen to hold its natural shape and then surrounded by bags of natron for 40 days. The entire process is overseen by the Overseer of Mystereries, God’s Seal Bearer, who served as the chief surgeon and the lector priest that…