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When mummifying a body, the Egyptians removed the brain to keep the body from decaying faster. The organs were eventually removed (with the exception of the heart) and stored in canopic jars, allowing the body to be more well-preserved as it rested. Occasionally embalmers would break the bone behind the nose, and break the brain into small pieces so it could be pulled out through the nasal passage. The embalmers would then fill the skull with thick plant-based resin or plant resin sawdust.
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RafaThey removed certain organs as they believed that they weren't needed in the afterlife. They left the heart as they believed that Anubis had to weigh the heart against the feather of truth. If the heart and feather were balanced, the deseased would proceed into the afterlife. If not, the heart would be fed to Ammit, th devourer or the dead, and the deseased would go no further.
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In Egypt a body preserved by drying?
Basically, a mummy.
What is a body preserved by drying is called?
It is called a mummy
Why was the mummy so tense?
The mummy was so tense because it had been tightly wrapped in bandages for preservation, causing its muscles to stiffen and contract over time. Additionally, the mummy may have experienced rigor mortis, a postmortem stiffening of the muscles that occurs a few hours after death. The lack of movement and circulation in the body also contributes to the tension and stiffness felt in the mummy's limbs.
What was the main body of water that ancient Egypt depended on was?
the nile river
Where did they make mummies?
Royal Treatment"First, they remove the brain through the nostrils with a curved iron implement, getting some of it out like this and the rest by pouring in solvents. Then they cut open the side of the corpse with a sharp Ethiopian stone, remove the intestines, and wash out the belly, cleaning it with palm wine and again with pounded aromatics. They fill up the body with pure crushed myrrh, cassia and other herbs (except frankincense) and sow it up again. After this, they pickle the body in natrum, [salt] hiding it away for seventy days, the longest time possible. After the seventy days, they wash the body and wrap it up completely in cut bandages of linen muslin, smearing it with gum which the Egyptians use instead of glue. The relatives then get the body back and make a man-sized wooden image, into which they insert the mummy and then store it away in a burial chamber, standing it upright against the wall."Deluxe Treatment"That is the most expensive way. The method for those wanting the middle way, to escape great expense, is as follows. They pack syringes with cedar-oil and fill the stomach of the corpse with the oil, not cutting it open and taking out the intestines, but inserting the oil through the anus and stopping it flowing out. Then they soak the body in spices for the prescribed number of days, on the last of which they remove from the belly the cedar-oil which they put in before. This has such strength that it brings out with it all the dissolved stomach and intestines. The natrum dissolves the flesh and only the skin and bones are left. When this is over, they return the body, their job completed."Bargain Treatment"The third method of embalming is the one used by the poorer classes. They just wash out the inside with a solvent, then pickle it for seventy days and return it to the relatives."
