Next, they washed out the body cavity with spices and palm wine, sewed the body back up, and left aromatic plants and spices. For our experiment 70 kg of artificial natron was prepared. Tubular bags (1988.437.1) and small sacks (1988.437.2) of unused natron were found in the storage jars from Tutankhamun's embalming cache. Archaeologists discovered a new papyrus of Egyptian Book of the Dead. The LL was desiccated in a container of natron salt, in simulation of the desiccation phase of an ancient Egyptian mummification. It was used as a dessicant in the mummification process. Natron, a naturally occurring salt found in the Wadi el-Natrun which is located in the desert west of the Nile Delta. It was mined from dry lake beds and used. It was only later that Herbert Winlock, the field director of the Museum's excavations at Thebes, realized that the natron and linen were embalming refuse from the mummification of Tutankhamun. Natron is a naturally occurring white, crystalline mineral salt which absorbs water from its surroundings. Then, 40 days later, embalmers would find a blackened and shriveled body ready for the next phase of mummification. Davis received a number of the jars and their contents in the division of finds and, in 1909, he gave most of his share to the Metropolitan Museum. They stuffed natron packets inside the body, covered it entirely in salt and left it to dry on an embalming table. At the time, almost nothing was know about Tutankhamun, and Davis declared that he had discovered the king's tomb. Among other things, the jars contained bags of natron (a kind of salt), pieces of linen with hieratic inscriptions dated to Years 6 and 8 of a king named Tutankhamun (throne name Nebkheperure). Inside the pit were approximately a dozen large sealed whitewashed storage jars (09.184.1). Davis, a wealthy American who was funding excavations in the Valley of the Kings, discovered a small pit near the tomb of Seti I.
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