Mummification

Mummification is the process of slowly drying a dead body to stop it rotting.
In Ancient Egypt, the process took 70 days.
Priests removed the liver, lungs, stomach and intestines, and stored them in four special coffins.
These coffins were called Canopic jars. The organs dry out in them.
Later, these were placed in the tomb beside the mummy.
The priests also removed the brains, but the heart was left to be weighed by the God, Anubis. The heart is, "the seat of the soul".
They washed the body in palm wine.
Then covered it in…

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