Not to preserve them, a modern theory reveals why Pharaohs mummified the dead? ...Egypt

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The mummification process of mummies, which  Egyptian and international scholars have always attributed to an attempt to preserve bodies for the afterlife, was not the motive behind this complex process, according to a modern British theory.     According to “The Guardian” newspaper, the mummification process was a way to transform the dead into a “form accepted by the gods.” Far from ensuring the survival of individual features, the mummification was aimed at making the occupant of the grave conform to a divine formula.     “The idea that we inherited from the Victorians, that it was all done to keep a dead body just as it was in life, is not right,” said Campbell Price, a leading Egyptolog

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