1. The Beautiful House Don’t let the name fool you, usually the Beautiful House was a tent!

2. Why make a Mummy? Body preserved in a special way. Egyptians believed in an afterlife, where they would live on forever. Believed the body was essential to get into the next world.

3. Who was made into Mummies? When the Egyptians first began to make Mummies, the rich and powerful were only made into Mummies. As the centuries went on, many more people were Mummified.

4. How to make a Mummy! Firstly, the body was washed all over. This was so the body could wash away anything “impure” from coming with it into the next life.

5. How to make a Mummy! Next, the brain was removed. There were a few ways to do this, but the most popular one was with a hook, out through the nose!

6. How to make a Mummy! Next, a long cut was made down along the left side of the body. Here all of the organs (Stomach, lungs, intestines, and liver) are removed. All these organs were stored in special Canopic Jars. The Heart is the only organ left in the Mummy.

7. How to make a Mummy! The body is then left in a large pile of natron (A kind of salt) for 40 days. This dried up the body, and took away almost all of the moisture. This is why Mummies lasted so long.

8. How to make a Mummy! At this stage, the Mummy doesn’t really look like how it did in life. The skin is softened with oils and make up put on. To restore the body to the proper shape, the embalmers stuff it with rags and sawdust.

9. How to make a Mummy! At last the Mummy was ready to be wrapped. The Mummy was wrapped in about 20 layers of linen. Finally, the bandages were glued together.

10. A Pharaoh Funeral. At the Funeral of the Pharaoh, almost the entire country attended. Gifts, ornaments, clothes, food, flowers, perfume, wine, books, thrones, chariots… You name it, it went in the tomb with the Pharaoh!