RANDY MUMMIFY NO FURTHER A MYSTERY

The third and lowest priced technique of embalming was "just to wash out the intestines and keep your body for seventy times in natron" (Ikram, 54, citing Herodotus). The inner organs were being eliminated in order to aid protect the corpse, but as it was thought the deceased would even now require them, the viscera were put in canopic jars to get