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I don't know about you, but when I first read about canopic jars I thought they just tried to stuff the organs in the jars. Of course I was wrong ( but it did take some stuffing for the intestines.) The Egyptians dried all the organs out with natron. And now I bet your wondering what natron is. Well, natron is a sodium carbonate and when I learned this I felt kind of dumb. I mean of course they used sodium!! Sodium is a preservative and it dries things out easily, so why wouldn't they use it! Of course not everybody had their organs dried out with sodium, especially the poor. The cheaper way to do it is to inject oil and spices in to the body. The organs then decayed and liquefied and got drained out of the body. I'm not sure if they put the liquid organs in canopic jars, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did.
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