1. If you were going to be an Egyptian Mummy
Disgusting Things You’d Rather Not Know
By Daniel Zalewski
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From the book:
You wouldn’t want to be an Egyptian Mummy!
Disgusting things you rather not know
By David Stewart, David Antram, and David Salariya

2. What do you need?? Your body Linen Oils A Priest
Ancient Egyptians took a lot of time preparing for the afterlife. They believed the body had three spirits that survive after death only if the body was preserved. These were the ka, the person’s life, ba, the spirit of their personality, and akh, the glorified soul.
Your body
Linen
Oils
A Priest

3. Your body would be embalmed and mummified
Your body would be embalmed and mummified. Everyone who could afford it would make elaborate preparations for this. This was believed to preserve the body allowing the spirits to survive.
What could you afford??
You would need to pay for your mummification so there were three
ways of mummification:
The Cheap Way- The body is injected with cedar oil and then it is dried
out using a natural salt know as natron.
The Mid-Cost Way- The organ are removed and embalmed. The body
is dried out with natron and then wrapped up in strips of linen.
The Luxury Way- The same as Mid-Cost, but with a portrait mask made
of cartonnage (plaster, linen, and resin combined) or, like King Tut,
made of solid gold.

4. Removing Organs What do you need?? Your Scrubbed Body Tools
Natron Salt
Knife
After your body has been cleaned you would have its organs removed. They take you to a “place of embalming” called a wabet. In order to remove internal organs, a “slicer” makes a long cut along the left side of your body
Handy Hints
A hooked instrument is used to pull the brain out of the head through the nose.
(DO NOT TRY AT HOME)

5. Your organs are removed and would be embalmed separately,
although your heart is left in your body you will need this later.
Once the body cavity has been stuffed, the cut along your left side is
sewn up and covered with the carving of the eye of the sun god,
Horus.
This is said to protect the body since the Eye of Horus is also known as the Protective Eye.

6. Storing your Organs
YOUR LIVER will be stored in a jar
with the human head of the god
Imsety on it.
YOUR LUNGS are stored in the jar
protected by the god Hapy, who’s
head is a baboon’s.
The Canopic Jars are stored in a specially made box called a canopic chest. This will be stored in your tomb and should be placed as close to you as possible.
YOUR INTESTINES are kept in the jar with the falcon head of the god Qebehsenuef on it.
YOUR STOMACH is placed in the jar with the jackal head of the god Duamutef on it.

7. Get Stuffed What do you need??
Natron
After forty days in natron, your body is completely
dried out. Your skin is shriveled and wrinkled, and
You look like a piece of old leather. You are then
transported to per nefer (beautiful house) where your will be rubbed
with oils to make your skin softer. The empty space where your organs
where is stuffed with sawdust. The other parts of your body are
plumped up by pushing mud into tiny cut in your skin. They make you
fake eyes out of onions. Your starting to look like yourself again.
molten resin
sawdust
What do you need??
frankincense
palm wine

8. The Wrapping of the Mummy
The Egyptians would wrap the body in a special way in a certain order. The
order is:
Wrap your head
Wrap your torso
Wrap your legs (Right leg first)
Wrap your arms (Right arm first)
Wrap your legs together
Wrap linen pads within the bandage to round you
Wrap your arms to your body
Fold you within a cloth horizontally
Fold you within a cloth vertically
Secure you with rope
This process took 15 days and gave you 20 layers of linen.
Extra Fact
Resin is used to glue the linen together.

9. Bury all the equipment used to !!!!mummify your body!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Warning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must
Must
Bury all the equipment used to !!!!mummify your body!!!!

10. The Coffin What do you need? Skilled Carpenters Wood Carpenter’s Tools
Paints

11. Once you have been wrapped, you will need a good wooden coffin
Once you have been wrapped, you will need a good wooden coffin. If you are very wealthy, you could have as many as three coffins all fitting inside one another. Make sure they have pictures of the gods and all the correct spells painted on them to protect you. Of course, they should also have plenty of hieroglyphs singing your praises written on them. This nest of coffins will finally be placed in your tomb inside a large stone coffin called a sarcophagus.

12. Before burial rituals
The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony
The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony
The Funeral
You have now been dead for seventy days, and today is the day of your funeral. You are finally about to enter the afterlife!! You will be buried on the western side of the river, where the sun sets. Your coffin is taken there by boat and is placed on a sledge and pulled to your tomb.
A priest leads a procession of mourners, followed by bearers carrying food offerings and all the objects you will need in the afterlife.

13. The Two Ceremonies The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony:
The Two Ceremonies: The Opening of the Mouth ceremony (left) and The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony (right)
The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony:
This takes place in front of your tomb. A priest touches your “lips” with symbolic tools to restore your
senses and allow your departed soul to return
The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony:
Your spirit is led to a scale by Anubis, who weighs your heart against the feather of truth. The result is
Recorded by the god, Thoth. A monster, Ammut, waits to eat the heart if it’s too heavy by its bad
deeds.

14. The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony
Anubis (left), Thoth (center) and Ammut (right)

15. What you need for a blissful afterlife
The Book of the Dead
Your Ba
Your Ka
Chests
Headrest
Shabtis (servants)
Games
Boats
Stools
Wig Box
Figs
Meat
Grapes
Wine
Bread
And Much More
What you need for a blissful afterlife

16. Goes As Planned
But not
Everything

17. Tomb Robbers

18. No Way Tomb Robbers Once your tomb is sealed you may think you’re
ready for enternal rest.
No Way
Even before your family is home