What did the Ancient Egyptians do with the internal organs when they mummified a body?
Before the Ancient Egyptians could mummify a body they had to take out some of the soft internal organs. These contain a lot of water and the body would putrefy (start to decompose) very quickly if they were not removed. The heart and brain The Ancient Egyptians believed that we thought with our heart, and that our heart stored the memory of our good and bad deeds. We of course are much cleverer than them: unlike them we know that we think with our brain, and that we store our memories of the things we have seen and heard and done in our brain. Actually, most of us know this only because we have been told it: it is not at all obvious. Our heart pumps the blood round our body. In a healthy young adult it usually beats about 70 times a minute, or faster for children: the younger you are the faster your heart beats. If we are running around and using a lot of enegy it beats faster than this.Our heart also beats faster if we are very excited, or happy, or sad, or if we are doing something
