They had a process for preserving their aristocracy of immersing them in oily liquid.
The Egyptians used to mummify their dead. Dry air can mummify a body.
The ancient Egyptians did not mummify their gods but the bodies of their dead.
They used to do so in Egypt.
Embalmers mummifies the dead bodies.
Mummify
to preserve the body because they wanted it to be perfect for the afterlife.
It helped to preserve and protect the deceased in the afterlife.
Many ancient civilizations mummified there kings and queens to send them into the after life.
Because that was the cultural norm when mummies were made.
Osiris.
I have no clue His duty was to watch over the dead and to mummify people when they died
because they believed in after life and thought to soul would live on