• When a man died they would first wash his body in the ibu tent, or the 'place of purification'.
• After the body is washed, the embalmbers would remove several of the organs. These organs would be placed in salt and dried out, and later wrapped in linen.
  • The heart was one of the only organs to not be removed. It wasn't removed because it was known as the center of intelligence and would be needed in the after life.
• The body is then covered and filled with natron to allow it to dry out further.
• After forty days the body is taken from the salt and the dried out organs are retruned to the body.
• The body is then finally wrapped in linen and placed in a tomb. Where it awaits the afterlife.

During the Old Kingdom only Pharohs and his top advisors would be mummified do to its expense.