Mummy

The Four steps Neccesary to Mummify a Body:

In Ancient Egypt, mummies were a great part of the people's culture. They cared so much about the afterlife, it's almost like they thought more about being dead than alive! They created many steps to perfectly preserve the corpses of important people. First, you would bring the precious body (be it cat, dog, or human) to the Beautiful House. There, they would start embalming the corpse immediatley, (or your money back!). You may find it utterly desgusting that they had to remove the intestines of the person with there own bear hands. Now, as you think to yourself, "Eeew! No more! Please, no more!", you know you really want to find out how on Earth this was to be done without harming the body? Well, to answer your question, they had to split open the side of the person's abdomen (the left side to be exact!), and then...well...They took them out. With their bear hands. No present-day gloves whatsoever. It makes me sick just thinking about all the blood that would have come out! Bllllggghhhh!!!!! As for the brain (an unimportant intestine, apparently), there was a very different way of removing it. A long wire with a spoon on the end was thrust up the nose, and they scooped out the brain, willfully feeding it to strays like ice cream. Did they need to preserve the brain in little jars like all the other gooey desgusting guts? No, of course not! There's probably a sign on the bridge to the afterlife: No Brains Needed! I repeat: Blgghhhh!!!!! After they were done, there was still one organ untouched: The heart. Why the heart? What's so special about the heart? How come the heart is saved and not the brain? The Egyptians had a belief that the heart was weighed against a feather after the person was dead and gone, and if the heart was lighter than the feather, the person passed on to the afterlife. In my oppinion, that is the most interesting, mind-boggling, all-time coolest, and most stupid test anyone has ever thought up. Who's anything, let alone organ, is lighter than a feather? Anyway, the next thing they did was cover the body in this salt called natron salt, (name from the lake it came from). They let the body sit for two and half months! Who knew it took this long to die? The salt sucked up all the water in the body, which must have been hard work, because your body is approxemitely 60% water. No wonder it took two, almost three months! Then the body was covered in oils and wax. Lots and lots of oil. Lots and lots of wax. Then, without all those organs, you can imagine the body was probably pretty deflated, so they had to put something in there! And what stuffer is more plentiful in Egypt than sand? So the body was filled with sand, and for some veriety, some cloth and sawdust too. Imagine having nothing in you except sand and your heart. Not even a brain! (Caution, the Egyptians were probably a little wacko, DO NOT THINK YOUR BRAIN IS UNNEEDED AND GO STICK SOME COOKING UTENSIL UP YOUR NOSE TO SHOW YOUR HISTORY TEACHER HOW MUCH YOU CARE ABOUT THE SUBJECT!!!!!!!) After that comes the most famous part of mummification: The wrapping of the corpse. Fifteen days. FIFTEEN DAYS! It took fifteen days to put twenty layers of bandage on the stupid dead dude! Each finger and toe was wrapped individually, glue applied in between. Finally, the mummy goes into the tomb! Well, actually into the coffin. Actually a range of two to about ten coffins. THEN it's into the tomb! Finally, onto the afterlife!