What is a Embalmer? By: Alex Ok

1. What is a Embalmer?By: Alex Ok In Egypt the Embalmers preserve the dead body. The Embalming process cost a lot because the Embalmers do a lot to mummify someone. The cheapest way to be mummified cost 150 Deben's. The Embalming process takes 70 days. 15 days washing and preparing, 40 days drying, and 15 days bandaging, wrapping, and painting. Not everyone could be mummified. Only royal people and well people could only be mummified. The cloth they use is about 1200 yards of 3 ¼ inch. The burial is decorated with pictures of foods, animals, and servants. This is what the Embalmers does.

2. Steps of Embalming • They wash the body with natron. • Took out brain with a hook through nostril • The Liver, Lung. Stomach, insistent, and other organs are taken out of the body except the heart • They stuff the body with spices, herbs, and natron • Let it dry for 40 days • After dried a final coat of natron, soaked bandages, and herbs to make it smell good • They put makeup on the body to make it realistic • Then the body was wrapped in cloth up to 400 meters • They put a death mask on the body • When done the body was put in the tomb and put in the burial

3. Quiz! • Q: How long is the bandage? A: 1200 yards • Q: How long is the process of mummifying someone? A: 70 days • Q: how long is dry period? A: 40 days