What is a mummy?

A mummy is a body that has been specially preserved so it won’t decay. The Egyptians believed you needed your body in the afterlife, so they took great care of it.

They dried the body with a special salt called natron, wrapped it in long strips of linen, and placed lucky charms called amulets inside the wrappings.

The most famous mummy is the boy-king Tutankhamun, whose golden tomb was found almost completely untouched in 1922.