⚰️🇪🇬Explanation Writing - How were/are mummies made? (In Ancient Egypt)🇪🇬⚰️

⚰️🇪🇬Explanation Writing - How were/are mummies made? (In Ancient Egypt)🇪🇬⚰️
IALT: Write an explanation writing about how mummies were/are made? (In Ancient Egypt)

(Topic - How were mummies made?)

In ancient Egypt whenever egyptians would die, they would go through these steps to preserve or protect the body.

• The first step to making a mummy is having to insert a hook through a hole near the nose and pull out part of the brain.
• Cut the left side of the body to remove ALL internal organs EXCEPT the heart which the egyptians believe help guide the mummy or body in or through the afterlife.
• The next step is easy, all you need to do is let the internal organs dry.
• The next step to making a mummy is having to place the internal organs in separate canopic jars, a canopic jar is mostly or only used by egyptians during the process of the mummification, carved from limestone and were made of pottery. Each organs are placed in specific canopic jars, in each canopic jar was an organ which was protected by the four sons of Horus, each son was responsible for protecting each of the organs.
• After placing the internal organs (lungs, intestines, stomach and liver) in separate canopic jar the egyptians would fill the jars with a type of salt called natron, this salt helped kill the bacteria but this salt is not like the others, this salt is mixed with two alkaline salts, soda ash and baking soda.
• The egyptians then rinse the body with wine and spices to clean the skin.
• The body would then be laid or set in a bed being filled with natron for about 35 days to protect its outer flesh.
• When time has come or after 35 days the alkaline salt had sucked the fluid from the body and formed hard brown clumps.
• The priests poured tree resin over the body to seal it, they messaged the body with a waxy mixture that included cedar oil.
• The priests would then wrap the dead body with linen or bandages.
• Lastly they would then place the covered body in a nested coffin or sometimes in a stone sarcophagus.

This is the process of how mummies were/are made in ancient Egypt.

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Question of the blog: Why is the egyptian burial differnt to how we do our burial's?