d with the funerary items. When people are dead, normally bacteria and other germs decay the skin and organs. If bodies were decayed, we would have never found out what they look like in life. But mummies are dried out with salt (or sand). Egyptians thought that if they put salt on the body, it would fight off evil spirits Mummification in ancient Egypt was a very long and expensive process. From start to finish, it took about seventy days to embalm a body. Since the Egyptians believed that mummification was essential for passage to the afterlife, people were mummified and buried as well as they could possibly afford. High-ranking officials, priests and other nobles who had served the pharoah and his queen had fairly elaborate burials. The pharaohs, who were believed to become gods when they died, had the most magnificent burial of all. In the case of a royal or noble burial, the embalmers set up workshops near the tomb of the mummy. The art of Egyptian mummification consisted of many steps. First, the body was was
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