Special salt used by Egypt to help the school mummies survive for thousands of years

Ancient Egyptian mummies existed for thousands of years intact. So how did ancient Egyptians mummify when at that time it was extremely difficult to prevent decomposing corpses?

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The ancient Egyptians used natron, a special salt capable of destroying bacteria to inhibit or stop the decomposition process of the body and preservation almost intact mummies for a long time.

Check out the video below to see how the ancient embalming process of ancient Egypt took place!