Our Chicken Mummy! By: Will and Sam

Ms. Shellenberger opened the chicken that we are going to mummify. If there were organs inside we would have taken them out and put them in canopic jars.

 


We are measuring our chicken so we can tell how much it shrinks or flattens later.



This is our sheet for recording our measurements.

Mrs. Shellenberger put the chicken in the bag after she dried it really well. Then she added salt also called natron. This will dry it out. The Egyptians did this too so that the bodies would dry out before they rubbed oil and spices onto the body and wrapped the mummy in linen. Then they put it into a sarcophagus.
We then packed the chicken away in a container so it doesn't smell!

We will weigh, measure, and resalt the chicken again weekly.