Egyptian Mummification Process And Rituals

Before the Egyptian mummification process was introduced and then refined, the ancient Egyptians buried their dead in shallow pits in the sand. This actually mummified the bodies naturally; the hot sand dried the body of liquid very quickly, preserving it from decay.
This was the trend in the pre-dynastic period.
But they noticed that the bodies were vulnerable to exposure and wild animals, so they decided to experiment with man-made methods to mummify the dead.
Keep in mind, the reason they mummified was because they believed the body had to be preserved in order for the deceased to be rebornin the afterlife. If the body was lost, so was the soul.
So they started trying to preserve the bodies in large clay pots, animal skins, and reed trays with linen tightly wrapping the body.
But this proved counterproductive since the bodies were not exposed to the hot sand that dried and preserved them. They began to decay.
Only the skeletons remained.

The Real Deal on Egyptian Mummification
After experimenting, the ancient Egyptians developed a two-step mummification process: Embalming and wrapping.
Embalming
The first step in Egyptian mummification is to lay out the body on an embalming table. The embalmers (some of which were priests) would wash the body with palm wine then make an opening on its left side to remove the internal organs.
The heart was left inside since it is needed on the journey through the underworld.
The organs would be washed and dried in natron salt. They were then wrapped in linen and placed in Canopic Jars.
The brain was also removed. The embalmers broke the top of the nose and inserted a hook which would pull out the brain in chunks.
Sometimes they would also pour a liquid into the brain through the nose to dissolve the remaining pieces. The dissolved brain would then be poured out of the