In burials of this class there are no traces of mummification, or of burning, or of stripping the flesh from the bones.

The importance attached to this aim was intimately associated with the development of the practice of mummification.

But it was not merely in the acquisition of a knowledge of material facts that mummification exerted its influence.

Surgery had its origin in mummification, as astronomy had in astrology, and chemistry had in alchemy.