The Egyptians were famous for their skills of preserving the human body for decades and even centuries to come. This expensive and time consuming process was known as Mummification. Once one of the world’s most powerful and renowned civilizations, the Egyptians had an adept ability of preserving the human body for religious and ritualistic purposes. Originally, the Egyptians discovered the secrets of mummification through natural causes, i.e. the weather and the hot sand drying out the bodies of the dead that were left in shallow pits in the desert. As the Egyptians mastered the trade, the service was used mostly for pharos and the extremely wealthy. The Egyptians believed the body must be kept intact in order for the soul to continue living