The level of mummification depended on what one could afford. An Egyptian Mummification Mummification is the preservation of a body, either animal or human.
Some mummies are preserved wet, some are frozen, and some are dried.
It can be a natural process or it may be deliberately achieved. The Egyptian mummies were deliberately made by drying the body. For centuries mummification was a wonderful and great privilege enjoyed by the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. Mummification remained an expensive business, well beyond most Egyptians. The earliest ancient Egyptians buried their dead in small pits in the desert.