To preserve the body for the afterlife
in acient Egypt after the people were mummified they would get there heart weight against a feather if there heart was heavier than the feather your heart would get fed to a crocodile headed animal and you would not move on to the afterlife
We have found a mummified body in the desert.Because he was mummified, he was also rather well preserved.
The people that were mummified had their pets mummified, also.
Terrified rhymes with mummified
One of the preparers stuck a stick up the corpses nose swirrled it around and scraped the liqufied brains out. Then they covered the corpse in salt for a few days, wrapped it in burial cloth and dug a hole to put the now mummified corpse into usually along with a deceased pet or something special they cherished in the burial mound with the mummy.
yes wild animals were mummified
Cleopatra was 39yrs. and 10 months when she was mummified
The ancient Egyptians kings when they passed away were mummified.
No, Osiris the God of the Underworld, was the first king to be mummified. He was a king and then became a god after being mummified
The reason the heart wasn't removed from the corpse was because ancient Egyptians thought that the person would need the heart in the afterlife.
The heart actually was taken out. But then after it had been mummified it would be put back into place. The ancient Egyptians thought that the soul lived in the heart, so without it in place the soul was incomplete and therefore would not be able to move on to the afterlife.