Mummy+Extended+response

How would you like to go to a beautiful house? Sounds nice, right? Well, actually a beautiful house is where you mumify someone. It's not that pretty. This is how you do it- The first step in mummifying someone is to take their guts and organs out so their body wouldn’t start to rot and stink. You’d have to cut a hole on the left side of the carcass and pull out the stomach, lungs, liver, and intestines. The more important ones would be preserved in jars. The article says that the brain was scooped out using a wire with a spoon on the end…and it was stuck up the guy’s nose! Eeew! Then they fed the brain to the stray cats! The Egyptians left the heart, though, because that was how they got into the “afterlife”. Next, the inside of the body was rinsed with wine, to wash out anything that was left. The second step of making a mummy was giving it a salt bath. It sat for 70 days in //natron salt;// a salt that killed any remaining bacteria on the body. The body was then rubbed with “a varnish-like substance from trees and plants called resin.” Then, oil, wax, and more natron all mixed together was spread onto the skin. The author states that the inside of the body was stuffed with cloth, sawdust and sand to give it a nice shape. Third, mummy makers would devote fifteen days to wrapping the body in its bandages. Sometimes, there were over twenty layers of bandages, and a coating of glue was required between each! Most mummies had enough linen to cover a basketball court! Finally, the mummy was placed in a coffin. Normal people usually had just two coffins, but if you were a Pharaoh you got “the royal treatment”, which was one coffin after another, after another, after another…ect. Some of them were even beautifully painted or covered in jewels and gold! Then, all of them were placed into a big stone box called a Sarcophagus and put into a tomb, ready for their body to go to the afterlife.


 * This definitely isn’t my first choice of topic (in fact, it’s my last), it was really grossing me out! It even says, “Encyclopedia of everything nasty” at the top of page 111 (our page two)! Who would even read an encyclopedia of disgusting stuff?

Anyway, hope you atleast think I did satisfactory work, because I don't expect you to enjoy it.

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