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Egypt is famous for its mummies. Does Egypt still have the technology to make mummies?

Even when you mention Egypt, an ancient cultural country, you will definitely think of mummies. In addition to the pyramids, the sphinx and other famous buildings, mummies can best represent Egypt. There are many doubts here. Do they still mummify?

When answering the question whether it can be made, I think we should want to know what was the purpose of their original mummification? According to many records, the earliest mummies were made in Egypt because in the Egyptian concept, human death is only the death of the body, and its soul will not die.

They thought that the dead Egyptians would go to another world to survive in the form of souls, so they wanted to mummify the bodies with various spices and put them in graves, hoping that the souls of the dead would return to this world again. Often people who can be mummified after the death of ancient Egypt are often people with high status.

So back to now, in fact, there is no exactly the same way to make mummies in Egypt. First, because this method of mummification was not known in the past dynasties, it was more preserved in the Egyptian royal family. In the process of circulation, it often dies out gradually. Second, because Egyptians no longer have obsession with the existence of the dead, there is no need to make mummies.

Third, although some important Egyptian leaders may want to preserve their bodies, because of the progress of science and technology, other scientific and technological methods can be used instead of mummification.

Therefore, although Egypt was famous for mummies at first, there are basically no mummies now, and even those who want to make them often can't find a real way.