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there is not a chemical but more like a sticky sap called resin that was used to embalm or preserve bodies of the wealthy & pharaohs
Because they wanted to clean the bodies
Natron, is was a type of salt used to dry out the body.
A mummy was a person before it died. Although on rare occasions, other creatures were mummified by certain ancient cultures. The typical use of mummification was to preserve a body after the person had died. One culture that used this practice were the ancient Egyptians. Only rich or royal Egyptians such as the Pharaohs were mummified.
They used mummification to preserve the deseased body so that the soul was capable of moving on to the afterlife. The hot sand of the desert would dry out the body and the deseased wasn't able to make their way into the afterlife.Egyptians believed that the human soul was connected to their hearts. So they wanted to protect it and preserve the dead.
To preserve and purify the body so that it could be used by the Pharaoh in the after-life. Egyptians thought pharaohs needed their bodies in the afterlife.
there is not a chemical but more like a sticky sap called resin that was used to embalm or preserve bodies of the wealthy & pharaohs
Embalming fluidThe chemical to preserve bodies is Natron
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Formaldehyde
Because they wanted to clean the bodies
salt
Natron; a form of salt
You think probable to formaldehyde.
it waz called natron, ti waz uzed to suck water from the bodies