My Mummification Project

To start off this mummification project I gathered the materials; 2 ziploc bags, 1 apple, ½ cup of baking soda, and ¼ cup of salt. I poured the salt into one of the bags, and then the baking soda. I mixed both of the ingredients thoroughly in the bag and that made my natron mixture. Then I put the apple in the other bag. After that, I slowly poured the mixture onto the apple, and waited to let it dehydrate.
The first day of checking back on the apple, I found that the apple was a little bit darker.
The next 6 days I waited in boredom for something to happen, but nothing happened. In that period of six days I bought supplies and began my process of making the sarcophagus. I made a cardboard box by cutting another bigger cardboard box. So, I
When scraping the natron still left on the apple, it was soft and mushy, like mud. It also looked like snow. After cleaning it, the apple still looked like it was dirty because I think the baking soda stuck onto it. Then I grabbed my materials to make the scented oil mixture. I got some turmeric spice and corn oil. I mixed a teaspoon of each ingredient and mixed them both together. After they were mixed, I poured the mixture on to the apple and rubbed the apple.
At the end, I wrapped toilet paper around the apple to make the mummy. But, to finish the complete project, I decorated the sarcophagus, and put the mummified apple in it.
I’d say that the project turned out successful, but I can’t be sure until a while, because I need to see if it’ll preserve over time.
I can see the difficulties when the Ancient Egyptians had to do the process of mummification. Instead of just putting an apple in a homemade natron mixture and waiting, they had to open a human body, take out some organs, and wait even longer. But they also didn’t make their sarcophagi out of cardboard. So when some articles say the process of mummification is hard to master, I could