Mummification In The Ancient World Of Ancient Egypt

In the ancient world of Ancient Egypt when a pharaoh has died the process begins of mummification. The Ancient Egyptians believed that everyone had a soul and it was referenced by two names, the ba and ka. The ka was the twin of the person who had died and each day it returned to live with the family of the deceased. The ba was a bird with the head of a human and each day it traveled to the other world. The reason that people were mummified was because each night the ba and ka had to return to the body. Poor and ordinary people had to be preserved by laying in the hot sand of the desert. The pharaohs and nobles were mummified to make the bodies last longer.

The actual process of mummification has changed depending on what the pharaoh wanted.