no, most of them were very poor so their families buried their dead in sand pits in the desert.
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Initially, only the aristocrats, royalty and the very rich Egyptian people were mummified. They offered the poor people who could not afford to do the full mummification a shorter version.
Not at all. Only the very rich could afford mummification but it is much more common amongst priests and, of course, Pharaohs because of its religious associations.
A dead person's organs were empty and filled with rags in ancient Egypt. During mummification in ancient Egypt, the dead person's organs were removed and later filled with rags instead.
to extract , as in heating ore to remove iron
Anubis was in ancient Egypt the god responsible for embalming (mummification) and the guide and protector of the dead in the underworld (Duat).
The Egyptian god Osiris was known as the god of the dead. He was additionally known as ruler of the underworld.
Everyone in ancient Egypt was allowed to get mummified, but the tomb and process was very expensive and out of reach of most Egyptians, so they were were buried in the desert which naturally mummified them