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Published: 01.06.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'Being Mummified ', 1.
  • Essays 'Being Mummified ', 2.
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My Egyptian Mummification and Burial
A few weeks ago, I was a great Egyptian pharaoh, but today I will enter afterlife. I have already been through the processes of embalming and mummification.
First, I was thoroughly cleaned. Then I was taken to the wabet to be embalmed. My liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines were removed and placed in canopic jars. My brain was taken out with a hook through my nose. I was soaked in natron salt for fourteen days and had my eyes replaced by onions.
It took fifteen days for them to mummify me. I was wrapped in twenty layers of linen and bandages.…

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