FASCINATION ABOUT RANDY MUMMIFY

The 3rd and least expensive approach to embalming was "only to wash out the intestines and maintain your body for seventy times in natron" (Ikram, 54, citing Herodotus). The inner organs had been eradicated in order to aid maintain the corpse, but as it was thought the deceased would continue to want them, the viscera ended up placed in canopic jar