Also, at least for the Egyptians, it was a long, expensive* process, so it would only have done with their most honored deadNoctifera wrote:The mummification process is not one to be ooked about.. it was a sacred, careful, highly spiritual and ritualistic honor to that being.
* According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the mummification process cost a talent of silver; which (assuming 1 Drachma of his era = $50 US) works out to around $200,000 in modern money