Legend of Osiris and Isis Other uses for mummies Mummification process Click here for a step by step guide of the Mummification process. In order for the soul, or spirit, to be preserved, a ceremony called mummification had to take place.
Mummification is the process of drying out a dead body to prevent it from rotting.
To the Egyptians mummification provided a home for the spirit to live in the afterlife. The procedure was very costly, and so usually only royalty or the wealthy were mummified. People spent a lifetime saving up money to have a decent burial. Osiris, a beloved pharaoh, was murdered by his jealous brother Set, who spread his body across the Nile in fourteen pieces. Isis, the pharaoh's wife, gathered up her husband's pieces and bandaged them together in linen cloth.