1.  First the undertakers cut open the body.

Image of Canopic Jars at http://www.dia.org/, William Peck, DIAPO.wpeck@mail.ci.detroit.mi.us, March 2000. Email message.

2.  They leave the heart in the body, but they take out the lungs, liver, stomach, and intestines.  They place each of these organs in a canopic jar which is later buried with the mummy. 

 

3.  Next the body is packed in natron.  Natron is like salt. After many weeks in natron, the body is all dried out. Now the body weighs much less. The skin in now like leather- harder and tighter.

4.  The undertakers then tear fine white cloth into strips.

5.  Then they wrap the strips around the body from head to toe.

6.  After the mummy is all wrapped, the undertakers cover it with sticky sap from trees.

7.  Once the sap is dried, the mummy is as hard as a statue.

Image from Microsoft Publisher 98 clipart.

8.  At last it is time for the mummy’s funeral. The mummy is put into a fancy coffin.  Then that coffin is put in another fancy coffin decorated to look like the person who died.

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