Mummification in Egypt

Mummification was practiced in Ancient Egypt tin order to preserve the body for the after life .

Ancient Egyptian believed in life after death  This practice started and early as the old kingdom time in Ancient Egypt but it reach it is peak during the new kingdom. This ritual was essential to guarantee the survival of both the soul and the body. The ritual of mummification has been through many stages of evolution and, but most of its secrets have not been completely revealed yet.

Traditionally  all what we know of the mummification came to us  the classical sources of history  such as Greek writers and papyrus  drawing and wall relives and the rest through studying the mummies that e found intact inside the ancient Egyptian tombs.,

The most common way of mummification was as follows:

The brain was removed through  the nose  and was discarded.  The viscera was removed and   stored in jars  known today as the canopic jars,  while the  body was soaked into naturn salt  for 70 days until it was dehydrated, artificial ayes were placed instead of the real eyes which had dehydrated , then body is wrapped with  100 's of meters of gum coated  linen  and the jewels were inserted within the layers of the wrapping.

Canopic Jars:

It was necessary to  complete the mummification conserving the interior limbs such as the brain , the viscera and so on , putting them into a square  chest which was at first , during the old Kingdom  it was  divided into 4 compartments and was placed into a pit near to the sarcophagus, this box was made of stone or wood. Then apart from the ends  of the T^th  dynasty and en  general during the Middle  Kingdom and the Modern Kingdom that chest was turned to 4 jars .The  stopper s of these  jars  are  taken the shapes of 4  different heads ( according to the shapes of the 4 sons of Horus )

The Canopic jars are as follows:

The Greeks called these jars the Canopic Jars relating them to the deity of the old City  ”Canop”  now  it is  village in the province of  (Abu Kyr). That deity was  carry the name of Osiris  and was represented in the shape of a jar with Osiris head. And during the Ptolemaic period these jars were called the canopic jars.