Mummy

Egyptian Mummies
Jackal-headed god Anubis tends a mummy. Beneath the mummy lie four
canopic jars. Tombs of the Kings, Thebes.Ancient Egyptians perfected a technique called mummification, which allowed them to preserve bodies after death. Egyptians did this because they believed that when living beings left this life, they moved on to another plane of existence. Egyptians felt that when a person reached the afterlife, he or she would need his or her body to continue living there after death. Jus...