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The Practice of Mummification Didn’t Start in Egypt
When you think of mummies, the image of Tutankhamun’s casket comes to mind as well as all the countless mummy movies you may have seen. However, the process of mummification was actually first practiced religiously by a tribe in South America known as the Chinchorro about 2000 years before the Egyptians were doing it. The Egyptians evolved it and made it their own. A process which took around 70 days and was intended to help guide their people into the afterlife.
