Nevertheless, the presence of shrunken internal organs and relatively well-preserved bodies suggests that significant efforts were made to embalm Kha and Merit. The other organs were dried (desiccated), preserved in resins and oils, and wrapped in linen before being placed in the canopic jars (or on the body). The Valley of the Kings was where the pharaohs of the New Kingdom (about. He noted that Merit's mummy has disarticulated bones within the wrappings, which may be due to some, if limited, putrefaction of the internal organs left in place. Natron A natural salt used to dry out dead bodies and internal organs in the. Natron is a naturally occurring white, crystalline mineral salt which absorbs water from its surroundings. The internal organs (except the heart) were removed and the body was placed in a salt-like. "There is evidence that Kha's mummy may have been inflated by gases resulting from some bodily decay, before deflating as desiccation took place post-natron bath," Buckley said. It was a long process that may have taken up to 70 days after death.
"They were mummified using a natron salt solution, as were the royals in the 18th Dynasty, but unlike the wealthier royals, their internal organs were not removed," Stephen Buckley, an archaeological chemist at the University of York in England, told Discovery News.Īccording to Buckley, the salt solution would have reduced the need for evisceration, but the end result, though reasonable, shows why removal of the internal organs, followed by packing the body cavities, was preferable.
0 kommentar(er)
