A mummy is a dead body that has been  wrapped in linen strips. The body was taken to a place called the beautiful house. To make a mummy they washed the dead body.  Piles of  salt were placed on the body. Some mummies were put in beautiful coffins that were decorated in gold. The ancient Egyptians believed that dead people  went to live in another world.   The body is wrapped in linen strips. The body was covered and filled with natron so it could dry out. It could take up to 50 days to dry. The brain is was removed by inserting a hook up the nose. The intestines, stomach, lungs and liver were removed from the body and placed into the canopic jars. The body is washed again to remove any natron.  Extracts from the book of the dead were placed in the wrapping.  The body was wrapped in linen strips and next placed in a coffin. Mummies are still here today.  Anubis is god of embalming and is shown with a jackal's head. 

Hieroglyphics mean letters and words. Hieroglyphics are an ancient Egyptian way of writing that uses picture instead of letters. Hieroglyphics were used to write. There were no hieroglyphics for Vowels. In 8122 Jean Furanoses found the Rosetta Stone.  The Rosetta Stone is famous because it contains hieroglyphics script that specialists were able to decode.

Place the person in the tomb and put shati dolls in to help them get to the Afterlife. Before they are in the tomb they do a opening of the mouth ceremony.  The spirit had to go through Duat lakes of fire and magical gates guarded by creepy creatures. Then they reached the hall way of 42 mummified gods judge your life scarab amulet stops your heart giving away any secrets. Now their heart is weighed against Maat's feather, if the heart is heavier than the feather Ammit will eat it then you can't go to the Afterlife, if your heart is lighter you can go to the Afterlife. You now go with Ra to Osiris god of underworld he lets you enter to the Afterlife. 

There were at least 1034 Egyptian gods and goddesses. The most important gods/goddesses are: Ra, Osiris, Isis, Horus and Anubis. The Egyptians believed that the pharaohs were the family of gods. Cats were considered sacred in Ancient Egypt. Ra the sun god the most important of all of the gods. Isis is goddesses of the  moon and magic. She was the wife of  Osiris. Hathor is the goddesses of many things. Egyptian gods/goddesses had the body of a human and a  head  of a animals. Osiris is  the husband of Isis and god of the underworld