The Egyptians believed in an afterlife and developed complex funerary practices for mummification and burial to preserve the body. The internal organs were removed and placed in canopic jars protected by different gods. The body was then dried with natron salt, wrapped in linen with amulets, and a funerary ritual was held before burial. It was important for the heart to remain in the body so it could be weighed against a feather in the underworld - if balanced, the person found immortality, but if not, their heart and body would be destroyed.

1. Mummification & Afterlife

2. Embalming the Body
• Wash the body with good smelling palm wines
and rinse with water from the Nile.
• Cut a slit in the left side of the body and
remove internal organs the liver, stomach,
lungs and intestines are placed in canopic jars.
• imsety the human headed god holds the liver
• hapy the baboon headed god holds the lungs
Canopic
Jars 

3. Embalming the Body
(continued)
• duamutef the jackal headed god holds the
stomach
• qebehsenuef the falcon headed god holds the
intestines
• A hook is then inserted up the nose to remove
the brains the heart remains in the body because
the Egyptians believed that your heart was the
most important aspect of the human.
• the body is then covered and stuffed with natron
salt which will help to dry out the body
• The body is then placed in the desert for 40 days.
After the 40 days the body is then washed again
with Nile water the skin is the covered in oils.

4. Wrapping
• First the head and neck are wrapped with
linen. The fingers and toes are wrapped
individually. The arms and legs are wrapped
separately from the body
• In the layers the embalmers place amulets to
protect the body in the underworld. The 'isis
knot' amulet protects the body and ' Plummet'
represents personal balance
• Priests read out spells while the mummy is
being wrapped.

5. Wrapping
(continued)
• Papyrus scroll filled with spells from the book
of the dead is wrapped in the mummies hands
• A cloth is then wrapped over the whole body
and a painting of Osiris is Painted on top.
• A funeral is then held for the dead person
before the body is laid to rest they have a
ritual called 'the opening of he mouth' this
lets the dead person eat and drink one last
time

6. The Afterlife
• Death is not seen as the last stage of life
• Before the mummy can reach the underworld
it has to pass through seven gates, aided by
the magic spells inscribed upon the funerary
objects, then
• the dead person arrives in the presence of
Osiris (god of the underworld)

7. The Afterlife
(continued)
• Osiris then performs a ceremony called the
'weighing of the heart'
• Heart of the dead person is weighed on a
scale by the jackal headed god Anubis (god of
dead) against the feather of Ma'at (goddess of
truth)

8. The Afterlife
(continued)
• Balancing the scale meant immortality
• If the scale did not balance then Amemt
(crocodile headed god) would eat the heart,
and Seth, murderer of Osiris ate the rest of
the body