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Ancient Egyptian Mummy

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A mummy is a dead person ( or animal) that has been preserved after death. They are any egyptian that can afford paying for an expensive process of preserving their bodies. They believed they that when they died they would be brought to another world by the gods and resume their life there. The egyptians thought the heart was the centre of intelligence and emotion so they left the heart in the in the body. It took 70 days to embalm a body. It took a very long time from start to finish.Canopic Jars were used by ancient Egyptians to hold mummified remains.

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