Tutankhamun
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The Importance of Mummification in the Egyptian Mindset
Carter and his team notice that Tutankhamun's own mummification process appears to have been rushed. He has a star in approximately the right place where we can see the embalmers would have removed the internal organs, but it's not quite in exactly the right place and it's much too big. There's some speculation that he might have died in a foreign land, where mummification processes were less developed or formalised. His premature death means preparations for his burial are nowhere near complete. Time is precious. They must finish the job while his body might still be preserved, and seal him within his tomb before his physical being decays.
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