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Then the embalmers stuffed the body with rolls of linen, sawdust, mud and dried plants. To plump up any shrivelled bits, they pushed stuffing into tiny cuts and smoothed out the surface. They took special care to stuff the face, but sometimes the cheeks were stuffed so much, they actually burst open!
To make the mummy look more alive, it was given false eyes made of stone, coloured glass or even onions!
The most fancy mummies had gold finger and toe caps, wigs, make-up, clothing and jewellery.
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Mummy Mistakes!
Mummy-making didn’t always go to plan. If body parts were missing – either through injury or disease, or during the process – some embalmers made fake body parts out of wood or linen instead!