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Mummification

• Read about mummification.
• Why mummies? A very long time ago, the Ancient Egyptians put their dead in pits in the desert. The hot sun and the sand dehydrated the bodies, creating natural 'mummies'.
• But sometimes animals ate them, so they were forced to put their dead in coffins.
• To preserve the bodies, they developped a technique of 'mummification'.

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natural salt. Seventy days later it was washed again in a second coffin. Finally the funeral ceremony commenced. After the washing, the embalmers made a cut in the side and the legs, separately too. When the mummy was ready it was placed in a first coffin which was placed it was rinsed with water from the Nile. (More about mummies? Go to the British Museum!). through the nose. The body was then covered with they decompose first. The brain was removed fingers and the toes each one separately. Then the arms of the body. They took out the internal organs because Subject: 'Mummification' the neck were first wrapped with strips of linen. Then the and covered with oil to help it stay elastic. The head and First the dead body was washed with wine, then