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good smelling oils and the body was covered and stuffed with dry materials such as salt, and saw dust.

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What is the Egyptian process of preserving a dead body called?

It did not really have a name. It was the mummification process.


What was stuffed into the body and why mummification?

Herbs were put into the body after the major organs were removed. The mummification was to preserve the body for the life the person would have in the afterlife.


a body perserved by drying?

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Do you use mummification still?

No we not use mummification these days, because in ancient Egyptian they were not careful with the body's. Now they started to put body's coffins.


What effect does mummification have on the body?

the effect is to preserve the body for millions of years


Why is mummification important?

Mummification is important because, the Egyptians believed that if the person had no body, their spirit could not go to the afterlife.


Why mummification important?

Mummification is important because, the Egyptians believed that if the person had no body, their spirit could not go to the afterlife.


Is the process of mummification also called embalming?

Mummification is the preservation of the soft tissue of a body by any means, natural or artificial. Embalming is the deliberate preservation of a body for any period of time. This includes what we commonly term "the process of mummification" in Ancient Egypt


What was the point mummification?

To prepare the body for the next life.


What did Egyptians do to preserve a body 1 word?

mummification


How is mummification associated with the afterlife?

The body was preserved, for the after-life.


What is the first step to mummification?

The body is bathed in wine