Show 4 1 I I HOW MOBILES WERE YEllE MADE Three Different Methods Practised By Dy the Egyptians Chattanooga Times Time pre ere three different ways was of mummify ins the body practiced by the Uie the price being the Iii mark of or distinction and cause tor for forth th In the first and most moat eXI M II IVO i methods method the th brain was ex ti trad K i through the nose by means mems of offin fin n HI iI r 1 i probe robe and the tha intestines were r fm rn m M 1 entirely from the body an Ut Incision made hi tu the he he side I with t i sharp harp Ethiopian StOl The In int t TL were cleansed and wa washed hed in inin in and after aner being covered h r vider d aromatic gums were vere ps d i in jars The body was tb th tha u i up with myrrh and cassia casIa an ani 1 i lir hr fragrant and astringent sub m fl and was waa laid in natron for Cor fors CorI 5 s tv l I y day layS It was vae wa then carefully v iMi hl I and wrapped up In strips of oC fine i I th ared with gum The Tho cost of or 11 J 1111 8 body In fashion Cashion was wasa a i nt of silver about bout 1200 In th tho second ond method the brain was r 11 d r moved at all and the Intestines removed in ina Ina ina v 11 7 simplY implY dissolved and a hull state tale The body was Wil also 80 laid Jaldin in alt at and natron which it Is la said Bald dished di everything except the akin skin JUKI hones hone p The cost co t of in inthis Inthis this manner was 22 Z minae or The tin id method was wad employed for Cor the ther I r only It consisted con l ted simply of i arising too the body by injecting some Ft fl tong ronK astringent and then salting it f r fr r seventy e y days The TIle cost was very Ti II 1 the friends of the dead de d ware t tf r I tor or r to go CO to the expense e of oC eV t ot of these thees methods the thea v AH a soaked in walt U and bitumen Or 1 l Salt Halt alt only In fl the salt and bitumen n j i iv MIH cavity of the body was 98 fIld with bitumen and the hair hall ds Clearly it la Is to the bodies were preserved in this way that the th name mummy derived from the Arabic AraMo or bitumen was vas first applied The salted and dried body lae la mi e iMly distinguishable The skin is like Uke paper aper the features and hair hall have dis disappeared appeared lIN ted and nd the oon bones s are very brit brittle lie tle 11 and white It may be noted that th ey were sometimes removed and their thir places supplied by others of oC Ivory or of r obsidian The hair bail was also aleo re removed rem moved m ved and made into a packet cov coY covered ered rell with wilh linen and bitumen At a late period the flank Incision was wu covered with a metal plate on which h a sym The linen Inen c eye eve was engraved employed loyed to swathe the body v ra ni throe three or four Inches wide the thel 1 l Mirth was sometimes as RS great groat as O 4 I I |