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    The embalming process for mummification involved several steps. First, the body was washed and internal organs removed, except for the heart. The organs were dried with natron before being placed back inside the body. Next, the body was covered in natron for 40 days to dehydrate it and help preserve the skin. The dried body was then wrapped in linen bandages with sacred objects and placed in a sarcophagus.

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    The embalming process for mummification involved several steps. First, the body was washed and internal organs removed, except for the heart. The organs were dried with natron before being placed back inside the body. Next, the body was covered in natron for 40 days to dehydrate it and help preserve the skin. The dried body was then wrapped in linen bandages with sacred objects and placed in a sarcophagus.

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    The embalming process for mummification involved several steps. First, the body was washed and internal organs removed, except for the heart. The organs were dried with natron before being placed back inside the body. Next, the body was covered in natron for 40 days to dehydrate it and help preserve the skin. The dried body was then wrapped in linen bandages with sacred objects and placed in a sarcophagus.

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    The embalming process for mummification involved several steps. First, the body was washed and internal organs removed, except for the heart. The organs were dried with natron before being placed back inside the body. Next, the body was covered in natron for 40 days to dehydrate it and help preserve the skin. The dried body was then wrapped in linen bandages with sacred objects and placed in a sarcophagus.

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    Embalming the body

    First, his body is taken to the tent known as 'ibu' or the


    'place of purification'. There the embalmers wash his body
    with good-smelling palm wine and rinse it with water from
    the Nile.

    One of the embalmer's men makes a cut in the left side of


    the body and removes many of the internal organs. It is
    important to remove these because they are the first part
    of the body to decompose.

    The liver, lungs, stomach and intestines are washed and


    packed in natron which will dry them out. The heart is not
    taken out of the body because it is the centre of
    intelligence and
    feeling and the man
    will need it in
    the afterlife.
    A long hook is used to
    smash the brain and
    pull it out through the

    nose.

    The body is now covered and stuffed with natron


    which will dry it out. All of the fluids, and rags from
    the embalming process will be saved and buried
    along with the body.

    After forty days the body is washed again with water


    from the Nile. Then it is covered with oils to help the
    skin stay elastic.

    The dehydrated internal organs are wrapped


    in linen and returned to the body. The body is
    stuffed with dry materials such as sawdust, leaves
    and linen so that it looks lifelike.

    Finally the body is covered again with good-smelling


    oils. It is now ready to be wrapped in linen.

    In the past, when the internal organs were removed from a


    body they were placed in hollow canopic jars.
    Over many years the embalming practices changed and
    embalmers began returning internal organs to bodies after
    the organs had been dried in natron. However, solid wood
    or stone canopic jars were still buried with the mummy to
    symbolically protect the internal organs.

    Imsety the human-headed god looks after the


    liver.

    Hapy the baboon-headed god looks after the


    lungs

    Duamutef the jackal-headed god looks after


    the stomach

    Qebehsenuef the falcon-headed god looks


    after the intestines.

    The body has been cleaned, dried and rubbed with


    good-smelling oils. Now it is ready to be wrapped in
    linen.

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