NEW STEP BY STEP MAP FOR MUMMIFIED

The 3rd and most inexpensive means of embalming was "just to wash out the intestines and hold the human body for seventy times in natron" (Ikram, 54, citing Herodotus). The interior organs were removed in an effort to assist protect the corpse, but mainly because it was believed the deceased would nonetheless have to have them, the viscera ended up