Were the eyes of Mummies removed? Why or why not?
Here’s what I found about the mummification process: “The first step in producing a worthy mummy is to remove all traces of water. Water permits the bacteria, which are responsible for the process of decay, to thrive and multiply. Consider a raisin – it is essentially the mummy of a grape. Therefore, the primary goal of the ancient mummifier was extracting as much water as possible from the corpse.” http://mutnodjmetsmusings.blogspot.com/2… “The eyeballs were often pushed into eye socket and covered with linen pads. Sometimes eyes were painted onto the linen, but eventually the Egyptians began to use stone or glass eyes. Some mummies received onion skins and occasionally whole onions for eyes.” http://www.mummytombs.com/egypt/insides.… “and false eyes were placed within the eye cavities.”
