The Egyptians had a long tradition of making mummies of their wealthy dead. The process of a mummy from a dead body is called Mummification. Let’s see how it was done by Egyptians.

To make mummy, first internal organs were removed with a cut on chest and then the body was covered with stripes. Brain was removed from the nose with special instruments. 

After that these organs were kept in a device. But the heart was not removed, because these people considered the heart as a symbol of soul.

Then the body was coated with Natron (carbonate salt collected from the edges of the desert lakes), which acts as a drying agent to prevent further decay. After 40 days, natron was extracted from the skin and the body was filled with linen, natron pouch, herbs, sawdust, sand or chopped straw. 

The first few layers of skin and linen bandages were then covered with a resin coating. The entire process took about 70 days.

NOTE:- This mummification process used by ancient Egyptians is a very complicated medical achievement which they had mastered.