Priests
The priests had to be an essential part in the burial practice. The priests supervised the process called embalming. This process has many steps. Embalmers took out the organs. The only organ left was the heart because they believe the many gods judges a dead person with their heart. The organs are put in jars so they can preserve them. After seventy days they wash and oil the body then wrap it in hundreds of yards of linen. They decorate the wrapping with jewels and the dead person's belongings. They place a mask over the head and then the mummy is ready to be buried. A priest often watches this to make sure everything goes well and to bless the mummy.