... seventy days to complete, although perhaps only forty days were needed for the actual mummification, and religious rituals would have occupied the remaining time. The embalmers and their assistants probably wore masks to impersonate the gods who attended the mummification of Osiris. A special funerary priest would have presided over the various stages, and recited the relevant religious texts. First, the body was ... ...

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