Over thousands of years, the Egyptians developed and tweaked the mummification process to keep a body’s soft tissue intact over long periods of time, ensuring that the deceased person’s soul would live on in the afterlife. 

To ensure a successful afterlife for the dead through mummification, most internal organs were removed and preserved in distinctive jars. The brain was also removed, but not preserved, and the rest of the body was dried with natural salt, treated with oils and resins, and tightly wrapped in bandages.