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For over a century archaeologists and teachers have taught students that ancient Egyptians mummified corpses to “preserve” their bodies. Now, a disruptive new museum exhibit in the UK is set to reveal this as an entirely wrong and dogmatic assumption. A quick Google search on the word “ mummification” took me to an article from the Smithsonian which explained that mummification was a “method of embalming.” The article clarified that the act of removing organs left only a dried corpse that would “not easily decay.” Ready for the Afterlife: The Mummification Process in Ancient Egypt Mysterious “Black Goo” Of Egyptian Burials Demystified All of this information suggests the process of mummification was specifically orchestrated to slow down the process of