The Ancient Egyptian Mummification Process Explained
by Lori Dorn from Laughing Squid on (#4JF7D)
In 2009, the Getty Museum created an informative animation that explained the highly sophisticated ancient Egyptian process of mummifying a body. The model from which they based the information they used was the anonymous Mummy of Herakleides.
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