THE MUMMIFICATION PROCESS

MUMMIFICATION IS METHOD OF TREATING DEAD BODY. IT DIFFUSED IN THE ANCIENT EGYPT. AT THIS PROCESS EGYPTIANS REMOVED ALL MOISTURE FROM BODY. MUMMIFICATION STARTED ABOUT 2600 B.C. IT DEVELOPED OVER THE 2,000 YEARS.

THE MUMMIFICATION PROCESS TOOK SEVENTY DAYS. FIRST STEP WAS REMOVING ALL BODY PARTS THAT MIGHT DECAY RAPIDLY. THE BRAIN WAS REMOVED THROUGH THE NOSTRILS. THEN REMOVED ORGANS , THEY WERE PRESERVED SEPARATELY, THEY WERE IN A SPECIAL BOXES OR JARS AND HEY WERE BURIED WITH MUMMY.
NEXT WAS REMOVING ALL MOISTURE OF THE BODY. THEY COVERED BODY WITH A SALT IT HELPED BODY TO DRIED OUT EASILY AND FAST.

NEXT STEP WAS WRAPPING. EACH MUMMY NEEDED MORE THAN A HUNDREDS OF YARDS OF LINEN. THE BODY WAS CAREFULLY WRAPPED IN THESE STRIPS OF LINEN. OFTEN WE CAN SEE MASKS OF THE PERSONS FACE.
ALSO IMPORTANT THING IS THAT PEOPLE STARTED TO PREPARE FOR DEATH UNILL IT HAPPEND. THEY COLLECT FURNITURE, STATUETTES, FOOD AND EVERYTHING THEY NEEDED.

EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THAT MUMMIFIED BODY WAS THE HOME FOR HIS SOUL AND IF BODY WAS DESTROYED THE SPIRIT MIGHT BE LOST.
LIKE PEOPLE SOME ANIMALS WERE MUMMIFIED TOO. FOR EXAMPLE : CATS AND CROCODILES. IT WAS FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS.
THE MUMMIFICATION WAS AN EXPENSIVE PROCESS.

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