How are mummies made? How mummies are made

To make a mummy, you need to first dig up the internal organs of the corpse, fill the abdominal cavity with frankincense, cinnamon and other spices, suture it and cover the corpse with dry bubble alkali, take it out after 35 days, then wrap it in linen, fill it with spices, and coat it with resin to make a mummy.

To make a mummy, the body needs to be dug up and gutted, filled with frankincense, cinnamon and other spices in the abdominal cavity, sewn and covered the body with dry bubble alkali, taken out after 35 days, and then wrapped in linen, filled with spices, and coated with resin, and it was made into a mummy.

Mummies, i.e. dried corpses. The ancient Egyptians buried their bodies with embalming spices, and when they dried up over time, they formed mummies.

The ancient Egyptians believed that after death, the soul would not die out, but would still be attached to the corpse or statue, so the pharaohs and other kings were mummified after death as a hope for the eternal life of the deceased and a deep remembrance.

How the mummy is made is as follows:To make a mummy, you need to dig up the corpse and remove the internal organs, fill the abdominal cavity with frankincense, cinnamon and other spices, cover the corpse with dry bubble alkali after stitching, take it out after 35 days, and then wrap it in linen, fill it with spices, and coat it with resin, and then make a mummy.

The ancient Arabs believed that mummies could cure diseases, regarded it as a medicinal herb, and were once introduced to China. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" once had ** related rumors.

Egyptian mummies were sometimes dug up by the Arabs and used as fuel. Whether it is the pharaoh, or the pharaoh's wife, priest, or slave's mungeon, it will be mercilessly split and chopped up - just like chopping wood. Gum and balsam, which are used for preservatives, make mummies a good substitute for bituminous coal.

Mummies are simply hand-made dried corpses. Because it was ancient Egypt that made dried corpses with various techniques earlier in the world, it is also called Egyptian mummies. In ancient Egypt, people at that time believed that people could be resurrected after death, but in order to be resurrected, it was necessary to preserve the body, so that the method of resurrecting the soul could be used to "bring people back to life".

As a result, how to preserve the remains under relatively backward conditions has become a big problem.

After continuous experimentation and exploration, the ancient Egyptians finally found a way, that is, to first dissect the human body and hollow out all the other organs except the heart (in the eyes of the ancient Egyptians, the heart is also the key to resurrection, and no damage is allowed). After that, the heart is dried with some natural desiccant to prevent decay. The abdominal cavity is then filled with various natural spices, and then sutured, which mainly makes the abdomen look still full, and the abdominal cavity treatment is over.

Of course, this is only the abdominal cavity, and in order to ensure that the head does not decay during the production process, a special tube is used to penetrate deep into the cranial cavity from the nose and suck out all the brain and other fluids inside. However, after this operation, the flesh of the body will still decay, and it just so happens that the ancient Egyptians at that time had already begun alchemy, and refined a white powder, which is a good deodorant, which is bubble alkali. After the above operation, the body is completely buried in the bubble soda, at this time, due to the protection of the bubble soda, the corpse will not decompose, and the water in the corpse gradually evaporates, after more than a month of time, the water in the corpse is basically non-existent, and a dry corpse is obtained at this time.

After taking out the dried corpse, it is the "packaging" link, and there are two episodes before the packaging link, the first is to draw the eyes on a piece of leather, and stick it on the eyes of the dried corpse, this is the eyes of Horus, the eyes of the ancient Egyptians can help people resurrect. After that, the face of the dried corpse is painted with makeup, dressed in gorgeous costumes and jewelry, and finally the dried corpse is covered with pine resin, and then its hands are placed on its chest, and the dried corpse is slowly wrapped in a bandage soaked in palm oil, so that the mummy is ready. The whole process lasts about 2 months.

At present, archaeologists have conducted radiometric dating on the bands on the mummies that have been found, and the earliest known mummies appeared about 5500-5700 years ago, which means that ancient Egypt mastered this method as early as more than 5,000 years ago, and has to admire their wisdom.