The Eygptian mummy

Mummification is an act created by the ancient Egyptians to preserve dead bodies for the AfterLife.

They’re like one of the gateway drugs to civilians. The practice of preserving the dead probably arose accidentally burning the dead and a pen of sand where it’s dry might make a mummy, it’s easy to imagine how a body preserved in an almost lifelike state became spiritually significant. I mean, many religions consider the encourage ability of the body to be a spiritual sign.

Mommy’s first fascinated the public in the early 1900s when people would unwrap them in public performances. Dr. Kathleen Shepard from the Missouri University of Science and Technology says these events were poised between spectacle in science. It’s kind of a morbid fascination, but we can learn so much from mummies like spiritual practices of an ancient culture or even what people eat 1000s of years ago, the most famous or maybe infamous is the ancient Egyptian mummification process, which dates back to about 3400 BCE.

We all learned about this when we were kids. This process removes all the moisture from the body kind of like turning your group into a reason.

Here, After removing the internal organs with exception of the heart. The bodies are dried out using nature, which is made up of soda ash and baking soda. And this application should be left for about 40days until all moisture is eliminated,then perfumed oil is applied.

After being cleaned. The bodies are wrapped in linen and coated in resin. This whole process including building a sarcophagus or other tomb things were pretty expensive, so is usually reserved for the higher ups are wealthy. But Ancient Egypt isn’t the only culture to practice preserving.

They oldest mummies on Earth are from the chinchero culture in South America and gave back nearly 2000 years before the Egyptians in preparation for burial bodies were stripped of all their soft tissues then the skin was stuffed with vegetable matter.

Finally, the whole body was covered in clay. But these mummies are in danger from degradation from climate change the part of Chile where these bodies are kept as notoriously dry like hasn’t seen a drop of rain in hundreds of years dry yet maybe due to changing climate there’s an uptick of moisture in the air that makes the mummy skin fertile breeding ground for a hungry bacteria.