Mummies+extended+response

Then, some people noticed that when they treated animal hides they stayed soft. They then had to rip out all the organs.
 * Ever wondered what it would be like to mummify someone? Read this extended response to find out.**
 * In around 2000 B.C. the ancient Egyptians mummified important people (Cats and Dogs too) because they belived that after a person died they went on to the afterlife. But bacteria collected on the decaying bodies and they started to smell really bad so they had to do something about it. In my opinon that was pretty smart because the author of the article talked about it a lot so it must"ve smelled terrible.

The first step - was to slash the left side of the dead person's abdomen reach in and pull all of the gooey organs. In my opinion it was kind of like taking out the goo and seeds in a pumpkin. If your grossed out now you should probably take a break before reading the rest because it gets worse.** **Each of the organs was put in it's own little container then the body was rinsed with wine.

The second step - Now for my personal favorite part... the brain. The brain was scooped out with a spoon attached to a long wire which I think was pretty creative considering it was about 4008 years ago.The heart was the only thing that was left inside because they thought the mummy needed it in the afterlife. The egyptians didn't think the brain was important so they fed the chunks to the cats. Then they covered the body with natron salt and let it sit for 2 and a half months. I thought it was weird that they just used a special salt instead of tons of chemicals. Next it was put in resin. Additionally it was rubbed with a mixture of wax, oil, more natron, plumped up with cloth sawdust and sand.

The third step - was to wrap the body which took 15 days. I think it's crazy that some mummies had 20 layers of bandages. Why woud they need that much?

The fourth step- Finally the mummifiers put the mummy in a coffin (//coffins// for royaly). The coffins were then put in a carved sarcophagus made of stone.

To sum it up Mummification is a long dirty gooey project. How would you like that job?**