Mummy
How are the Egyptian Mummy made? Along with Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster and the Werewolf, the Mummy is one of the famous figures of the classic horror film, because mummies are real-life, tangible ghosts those can be seen in museums. The most familiar mummies, of course, are the carefully-wrapped bodies of ancient Egypt. Over centuries, the ancient Egyptians developed a method of preserving dead bodies so the deceased would use their body’s afterlife. The process of making a mummy which we call today mummification included embalming, a treatment to protect dead body from decay, and wrapping the bodies in strips of linen. Embalming the body first, the dead body is taken to the tent known as Thu or the “Place of Purification”. There the embalmers, priests who treats dead bodies, wash the dead body with good-smelling palm wine and rinse it with water from the Nile. Then the body is taken to Per-Nefer or the “House of Mummification”. One of the embalmer makes a cut in the left side of the body and removes the internal organs. It is important to remove these because they are the first part of the body to decompose.
