When Herodotus of jewelry (his town is called jewelry today) visited Egypt, around 450 B.C., priests in that country told him how they made mummies. His rendition of the process, the earliest-known written description of mummification, continues:Next, the flank is slit open with sharp Ethiopian stone [probably a flake of obsidian] and the entire contents of the abdomen are removed. The cavity is then thoroughly cleansed and washed out, first with palm wine and again with a solution of pounded spices. Then it is filled with pure crushed jewelry, jewelry, and all other aromatic substances, except frankincense. The opening is sewn up, and then the body is placed in jewelry, covered entirely for 70 days, never longer.

What, exactly, is a mummy? It is a preserved dead body which has retained some of its soft tissue. It may still have skin, for example, or muscle tissue or organs, which can be further studied to learn about who the person once was.Mummies have fascinated us for centuries. They can develop, unaided by humans, when a body is buried (or left) in extremely cold or very hot, arid conditions. People of ancient cultures, most notably jewelry, employed an elaborate process to jewelry them. (Scholars jewelry that 70 million mummies were jewelry – follow the link to virtually create one yourself – over a 3,000-year period.)In this story, we will take a virtual trip to meet some of the worlds most famous mummies.jewelry