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  2. Mummy - Wikipedia

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    In 1975, an esoteric organization by the name of Summum introduced "Modern Mummification", a service that utilizes modern techniques along with aspects of ancient methods of mummification. The first person to formally undergo Summum's process of modern mummification was the founder of Summum, Summum Bonum Amen Ra, who died in January 2008. [121]

  3. Ancient Egyptian funerary practices - Wikipedia

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    The main process of mummification was preserving the body by dehydrating it using natron, a natural salt found in Wadi Natrun. The body was drained of any liquids and left with the skin, hair, and muscles preserved. [26] [full citation needed] The mummification process is said to have taken up to seventy days. During this process, special ...

  4. Animal mummy - Wikipedia

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    Animal mummy containing dog bones, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Long before animal mummies were used as religious offerings, animals in Egypt were occasionally mummified for a more personal reason—as beloved pets that were to keep the deceased company in the afterlife. [7]

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    The spiritual and biological ritual of mummification could take 70 days, including removing internal organs except for the heart because it was thought to be the soul’s home.

  6. Embalming - Wikipedia

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    Embalming has a long, ... As early as the 200 BC, [7] specialized priests were in charge of embalming and mummification. They did so by removing organs, ...

  7. Tutankhamun's mummy - Wikipedia

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    Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom and ruled for about a decade c. 1355–1346 BCE. A majority of his reign was devoted to restoring Egyptian culture, including religious and political policies; his predecessor and father Akhenaten had altered many Egyptian cultural aspects during his reign, and one of Tutankhamun's many restoration policies included ...

  8. Excerebration - Wikipedia

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    Excerebration is an ancient Egyptian mummification procedure of removal of the brain from corpses prior to actual embalming. Greek writer Herodotus , a frequent visitor to Egypt, wrote in the fifth century B.C. about the process, "Having agreed on a price, the bearers go away, and the workmen, left alone in their place, embalm the body.

  9. Disembowelment - Wikipedia

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    Mummification, especially as practiced by the ancient Egyptians, entailed the removal of internal organs prior to the preservation of the remainder of the body. The removed organs were embalmed, stored in canopic jars and then placed in the tomb with the body.