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1. The lung, stomach, liver, and intestines are removed and placed in special containers call the "Canopic Jars".

2. Next the body is packed inside and out with a strong drying salt called "natron" so that the body does not rot.

3. The body is then rubbed with spices and oils, and then it is decorated. After that it is wrapped with strips of linen.

4. One or more coffins are usually made, most frequently out of wood. In royal burials the coffin then fits inside a larger stone coffin called a sarcophagus. The coffin containing the mummy is stuffed into several progressively larger coffins.

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Mummification shortened into five steps would be the following. Remove and dry, and jar the internal organs, rinse the body in wine, dry it with salt, wrap the body and place in the sarcophagus.

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The first step is take the organs out. The second step is put salt on the body, so the body can dry quickly, and it takes about 42 days for it to dry out. The third step is the announcement of death. The fourth step is wrapping the body. The fifth step is getting the tomb out. The sixth step is to paint the face of the body of the mummy. The seventh step is putting the body in the tomb.

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There is more than 8 steps to mummification.
Embalming
Step 1: The body is washed with palm wine.
Step 2: The body is rinsed with water from the Nile River.
Step 3: A small cut is made in the left side of the body.
Step 4: The internal organs which are the liver, lungs, small intestines, and large intestines, are removed.
Step 5: The brains are removed. A long hook inserted through the nose will pull the brains out. (The Egyptians did not know what the brain was for, so they removed it.)
Step 6: The body is covered and stuffed with natron. This is known as the drying stage.
Step 7: Wait forty days for the body to dry.
Step 8: The body will be washed with water from the Nile River.
Step 9: The body is covered with sweet smelling oils.
Step 10: The body is stuffed with dry things, such as sawdust, leaves, and linen.
Step 11: The body is covered with more oils.
Step 12: The internal organs are put into the canopic jars.
Now the body is ready for the next stage, wrapping.


Wrapping
Step 1: The head and neck are wrapped.
Step 2: The fingers and toes are wrapped.
Step 3: The arms and legs are wrapped.
Step 4: The sacred amulets are placed. The Isis knot, and the Plummet.
Step 5: The spells from the book of the dead are read.
Step 6: The arms and legs are tied together.
Step 7: A scroll is placed between the hands of the deceased.
Step 8: The full body is wrapped.
Step 9: The body is painted with liquid resin as glue.
Step 10: A cloth with Osiris painted on it is wrapped around the body.
Step 11: A large cloth is wrapped around the body.
Step 12: Linen stripes are wrapped around the body to hold the cloth in place.
Step 13: The mummy is put in the first coffin.
Step 14: The mummy is put in the second coffin.
Step 15: The funeral is held.
Step 16: The opening of the mouth ceremony is performed.
Step 17: The mummy is put in the sarcophagus.
Step 18: The mummy is put in its final resting place, the tomb.

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12y ago

1. someone dies

2. they wash and perfume the body

3. then they remove the brain

5. after they make a 3 inch incision and take out the stomach, intestine's, liver and lungs

6. after they naturally dry out the body with natron for 35-40 days

7. they stuff the body and put organs in canopic jars

8. then they wrap the body and put magical jewelry in between each layer

9. then they do the opening of the mouth ceremony

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I don't know or care

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