Mummy Magnet

Mummification was practiced throughout most of early Egyptian history. About 2600 BCE, during the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties, Egyptians began to mummify the dead intentionally. The practice continued and developed for well over 2,000 years, into the Roman Period (ca. 30 BCE–CE 364). Within any one period the quality of the mummification varied, depending on the price paid for it.