Like I said with servants they switched to wooden dolls of those servants. I don’t know about the cats tho
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The girls flesh has to be pumped with formaldehyde. It’s law in all 50 states. Embalming has to be done upon death regardless of religion. So the fluffy will die soon from the poison… At least it won’t suffer long.
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But they killed them before hand right? They didn’t just lock em up while still alive? It seems more and more likely that they left to die as I think of it more.
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This right here, they believed heavily in the idea that the dead would need things to take with them in the afterlife. Food, water, everything had a spirit to it and this spirit would be what goes with the pharaoh into the afterlife with them. Hence why when a pharaoh died, everything went with them including servants and their pets. They will accompany them into the afterlife where their services will be needed.
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They had to be mummified ahead of time, they believed strongly in preserving the body and the necessary organs. Cats were sacred to the ancient Egyptians so they wouldn’t have let them be subjected to rot and decay.
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Thanks! I have gained knowledge today!
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What is the reasoning for this?
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It’s part of the process in a mortuary, its for the funeral. Goes along with gluing the eyes shut and wiring the jaw in place.
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Not a problem, it’s not often that I can flex my ancient Egyptian knowledge like this so I relish in it. 
Of course, the sad part for servants and lower caste members is that they tend to be given less work then the pharaoh. The pharaoh gets all the treatment, he gets his brain removed and thrown away because they believed the heart was where all thought and memories were stored, the heart is saved, the intestines saved, stomach and liver saved and each has their own jar to store them. The body gets stuffed with salt, dried out, and then the salt is replaced with aromatic spices and herbs. It is washed with wine, coated in honey, resin, and oil, before finally wrapped with strips of bandaging that are blessed.
For most lower caste, they just get their organs removed, stuffed with salt (natron) and after being dried out, they’re given back to the family for funerary things.
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Also disease, formaldehyde kills all of the. Bacteria. Its required for the body to be transported.
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I actually remember that some will even use a special lens they put in the eyes of the deceased that render their eyes shut. Looked fricken terrifying. Then again, the body tends to… settle and dry out over time, resulting in things like the eyes opening back up and stuff so naturally they need to stop that from happening. If you look it up, they need to do a lot of cosmetic prep to make a body look presentable in funeral homes.
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Yup, otherwise things just begin to break down over time. Internal organs liquify, gases start to build up, putrification is an extremely nasty, but interesting thing to look at. Plus, if the body is allowed to decay properly in an airtight container, the gases it produces will naturally cause said container to explode.
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Oh yeah those spiky little lenses for the inside of the eye, wierd stuff. I dont wanna have an open casket, just throw me into the woods. (I know you cant legally do that but it’s what I want)
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Oh yeah there’s that mummified (or embalmed) Victorian girl that’s pretty much perfectly preserved in a museum that opens her eyes from time to time because she doesn’t have the lenses and the pressure from the glass casket or something like that.
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Yeah, I’m happy with cremation myself, I don’t like the idea of having scavengers eating away at my corpse. In some places, they have sky burials where they just let the scavengers like vultures and other avian creatures have their way with the corpse.
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Dont forget good old Lenin, they still upkeep his body daily. Keeping that boy pristine.
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I want that, I won’t be using it.
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It’s amazing that the best preserved corpses tend to be bog mummies. Although, mummies in extremely cold places tend to be haunting in their appearance.
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Yeah theres the iceman, so well preserved he even had is clothes left on him.
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