The steps to making a mummy
By Stephanie Brody
In ancient Egypt, when a important
person dies she/he will be mummified.
Before the new kingdom, mummies
were made by leaving a body in the hot
desert sands to dry until bodies were
getting lost in the sand because it was
sinking in so Egyptians had to find
another way to make mummies without
losing them. These are the eight steps to
taken to make a mummy.
The first step is to push a long metal
stick through
the nose
pushing
through the
skull case into
the brain then
mash up brain
up then pull it
out. The second step is to take out the
body organs (liver, lungs, intestines and
stomach) and put them into four jars
called canonic jars. The third step is to
wash the corpse in Palm wine and cover
it in a natural salt called Natron that
desiccated the body like the hot sands of
the desert.
The fourth step is after days,
embalmers rubbed the skin with oils,
spices and perfumes to keep it smelling
fresh. The fifth step is to pack the body
with bags of Natron, linen, sawdust and
sand to reshape it. On some occasions
the skull was packed with linen or resin
but most times it was left empty. The
sixth step is to wrap the body in layers
upon layers of linen bandages that have
been soaked in resin.
The seventh step is to paint the
mummy. Green paint on the eyes
because it's the color of resurrection,
red for men and
yellow for
women. The
eighth and
final step is
to seal the
mummy in
its case
called a Sarcophagus. After this they
would be put into a tomb or cave with
their belongings.
To conclude, mummies took a very
long time to make and embalmers used
up many resources making them. Only
high class Egyptians and pharaohs and
their pets/children/spouses/relatives
were made into mummies but they
became so popular that people found
ways to make them cheaper but the
cheap made one weren’t made half as
good as the high class mummies.
Mummies were very popular until the
1900’s where they died down since then
no mummies have been made in Egypt
that way or at all.