Ancient Egyptian Mummification

In early Ancient Egypt the Egyptians would be bury their dead in small pits in the desert, although the heat and aridness of the sand dried up the bodies quiclky resulting in lifelike but dead bodies called 'mummies' .

Later, the Ancient Egyptians decided to bury their dead in coffins that would protect them from wild animals in the desert. However, they soon realised that bodies placed in coffins decayed when they were not exposed to the hot, arid sand of the desert.

The ancient Egyptians, centuries afterwards, created and learned a way of preserving bodies so they would remain lifelike (the process included embalming the bodies and wrapping them in strips of linen). Today we call this process mummification.

An Egyptian Mummy



Egyptian Mummy in coffin