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- To begin with, the priests remove the internal organs from the body, then cleansed the body and dried them with natron.
- To ensure that the body remained complete in the realm of the dead, the removed organs were wrapped in linen strips and place in four special jars known as CANOPIC JARS
- We do mummification by covering the body with natron, a type of salt which has great drying properties, and by placing additional natron packets inside the body. When the body had dried out completely, embalmers removed the internal packets and lightly washed the natron off the body!
- A death mask made of cartonnage, linen bandages stiffened with plaster, was finally fixed on the head of the deceased. The faces of the funerary masks with their wide-open eyes were often gilded, as gold was supposed to be the skin of the gods. Age and illness are as foreign to them as ugliness and grief.
- The coffin with the deceased was taken to the cemetery in a procession of family members, friends, professional mourning women and priests. At the tomb a priest performed the opening of the mouth ceremony in which the deceased was magically “resurrected” by symbolically opening the eyes, nose and mouth.
- The deceased found their final rest in tombs which were mostly richly furnished. The mighty pyramids in which Egyptian rulers were buried are world famous.
- From the time of the New Kingdom onwards, the books of the dead were up to twenty meters in length and vividly depicted in texts and images the trials the dead person had to pass on the way into the realm of the dead. Only after passing these trials could the dead person move on into the realm of the dead. If the outcome was negative, the deceased died a second, final death as punishment.
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