Although not quite physically moving, part of a 3,000-year-old mummy has been brought back to life: its voice. A team of researchers used 3D printing and body-scanning technology to recreate the voice of an ancient Egyptian priest, Nesyamun. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports on Thursday.

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• Body is washed in nile.
• Brain removed by hook.
• Remove all organs and put in canopic jars.
• Leave the heart in for judgement.
• Burry the body in salt for 40 days.
• Body is stuffed with resin – soaked linen.
• The make up artist makes up the mummy.
• Put oil on body and then put on resin to seal the body.

King Tutankhamun

The ancient Egyptians believed that in order for a person’s soul to survive in the afterlife it would need to have food and water. The opening of the mouth ritual was thus performed so that the person who died could eat and drink again in the afterlife.

The ancient Egyptian practice of preserving bodies through mummification is no longer the preferred method to pay homage to our dead, but it is still alive and well in research labs. In turn, these 21^st century mummies are producing new insights about their ancient forebears.

Several aromatics used in the Egyptian ritual of mummification are used in today’s luxury perfumes. Sound gruesome? Take heart. When AADL asked Kydd about the smell of mummies she had this to say, “Mummies don’t smell like decomposition, but they don’t smell like Chanel No.

The miracle of mummification is how a body buried nearly 5,000 years ago could remain intact, while a non-mummified body decomposes into a pile of dust in just a few hundred years. Bodies rot because bacteria thrive in the moist conditions of decaying flesh and organs.

A basic human mummification costs $67,000, although it can easily exceed that depending on your requests. Pets are cheaper; a small cat or dog mummification goes for $4,000.

Because Mummification is a very elaborate, detailed, thorough, and lengthy process, it incurs extensive costs. And because we are a 501(c)(3) organization, we ask for a donation so that we can make this tradition available to you. Modern Mummification costs are integrated into at-need or pre-need arrangements.

Mummification — a lengthy process in which a person’s skin and flesh are preserved — is the costliest, starting at $67,000 (all figures in U.S. dollars). Plastination — a process in which the body is drained of all fluids and filled with a plastic-like substance — starts at $40,000.