Revealing the secret of the making process of ancient Egyptian mummies, you can understand it at a glance

When tourists from all over the world travel to Egypt, what attracts them is nothing more than two things, the mysterious pyramids and the weird mummies. Of course, these are the essence of ancient Egyptian culture. Visiting the pyramids is a must, but you will definitely also visit the mummy display in the Egyptian Museum. Mummification is a very ancient tradition of the ancient Egyptians, but now this tradition has been banned. So how did the ancient Egyptians make mummies? Let me tell you about it next.

The ancient Egyptians believed that if the body of the deceased could be kept immortal, the soul could return to the body in the afterlife and achieve resurrection and rebirth.

Therefore, when someone dies, his relatives will mummify his body in anticipation of rebirth in the next life.

The so-called mummy means "a corpse that has been embalmed with drugs."

The embalming of corpses has always been a worldwide problem, and it is difficult to achieve even with today's high-tech means.

So, how did people in ancient Egypt thousands of years ago mummify corpses and preserve them to this day?

In the earliest times, the ancient Egyptians buried their dead. In the desert, bodies dehydrate quickly under the scorching heat of the desert, thus preventing the body from decaying.

Later, the ancient Egyptians discovered that special substances produced in some areas could keep corpses dry, such as sodium chloride produced in the Natron Depression.

To make a mummy, in addition to dehydrating the body and keeping it dry, it is also necessary to remove the easily rotten stomach, liver, lungs and other organs from the body, absorb the water with salt, and use special Soak in liquid (such as edible oil, liquid rosin, etc.) and store separately.

However, because in ancient Egyptian culture, the heart was the "source of wisdom" and the most important of all organs, it cannot be separated from the human body and should be preserved in the corpse.

The ancient Egyptians were very sophisticated in their embalming techniques.

They used a special metal tool to penetrate the nasal cavity to make a small hole in the nasal cavity, poured palm wine from the nasal cavity into the head, and then inserted a long and thin tool into the head. Stir the brains so that the brains are fully dissolved in the palm wine. Then turn the body over, and the palm wine and the brains dissolved in it will flow back down the nasal cavity, thus emptying the brain.

After the internal organs are emptied, antiseptic substances such as asphalt or rosin are put into the body, the body is sutured, and then palm oil is applied all over the body. And sprinkle natron, dehydrated salt and other things on the corpse.

After the corpse is completely dehydrated, the raw materials on the surface of the corpse are washed with water and wrapped in linen.

A mummy was successfully made.

On that day when fate meets, the soul returns to the body, is resurrected, and begins a new life.