6th Grade Social Studies March 2014 Vol 1 | Page 3

Make a Mummy
By Logan Prokopik
What most people think when they
hear the word ‘mummy’ is a man wrapped in
toilet paper from a bad movie. What most
people don’t know is that mummies are a
huge of Egyptian history. What even less
people know is how to make a mummy. If you
have a corpse and want to honor whoever it
used to belong to, you’re in luck! To make a
mummy you just have to follow this simple
seven step guide.
Step One: The first step in this process
is to take the corpse to the Embalmers
workshop. The Embalmers are the people
who preserve the corpse. Once at their shop,
the Embalmers removed the brain using a
special curved hook that they used to mush
around the brain. Once the
brain
was ‘mushed’ it would
be
removed from the
brain.
Step Two:
During step two
the
Embalmers
removed the rest
of the internal
organs, but not the heart. The heart was
needed to pass a spiritual test posed by
Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld.
Step Three: In the third and most
important step in the mummification process,
the Embalmers had to cover the body in
natron salt. This prevented decay. The
dehydration process took forty days.

Step Four: In this step the Embalmers
took the organs needed for the afterlife and
stored them in decorative jars. This was the
most important step in which the afterlife
was concerned.
Step Five: The body was then packed
with sand, spices, and scented oil and linen to
give it shape. The wrapping process took
fifteen days.

Step Six: A
funeral mask was placed
over the mummies face.
The mummy was then
placed in a decorative
tomb.
Step Seven: In
the seventh and final
step, a priest dressed as
Anubis,
the
jackalheaded god of the dead, weighed the heart
and the dead person’s faults and good deeds.
To conclude, all you have to do to
make a mummy is follow this seven step
guide. Now hopefully you know more about
REAL mummies, and a little bit about what
life was like in Ancient Egypt. There’s just one
more thing that needs to be said; ALL HAIL
THE (dead) KINGS!