Mummies exist for hundreds of years and will not rot. How are mummies made?

We have all seen mummies, so why do mummies never rot? Are there any special skills in this?

We know the origin of mummies. Because the ancient Egyptians believed in the afterlife and treated the dead as much as the living, powerful people in ancient Egypt usually made a mummy and set themselves on the road to the afterlife.

Ancient Egypt used some special spices to treat the bodies of pharaohs or other high-ranking people, and then these spices might react, thus isolating the air and achieving the effect that the bodies would not rot.

Mummification usually includes several steps, such as face treatment, brain treatment, internal organs treatment, dehydration, air drying and so on. In fact, in addition to some special spices, turpentine or mercury can also play an antiseptic role. Because our country, like ancient Egypt, attaches great importance to funeral. We usually use mercury as an auxiliary prop when trying to ensure that the body does not rot.

However, mummies are not entirely the result of human intervention. Sometimes, mummies can be formed under the extremely dry natural environment, or it is the result of the interaction between nature and human beings. In the east and west, there are some famous cases in which mummies or corpses do not rot. In the west, the famous Pharaoh Tutankhamun in ancient Egypt, China's and the so-called Loulan female corpse are all famous examples. Now there are rumors that anyone who enters the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh with a curse will be unlucky. This is of course a joke, but it also proves from the side that the mummy is a mysterious thing.