Have we got Ancient Egypt's mummies all wrong?

[Warpy]

2. Death seems to have been considered a process by many cultures

that wasn't complete until the remains were skeletonized. Exposure burial was common, as was mechanical deflieshing for more formal burials.

The Egyptians seemed to want to stop that process, the keep people in a semi living state as long as possible by mummification. I don't know if they were trying to make them immortal gods or if they just couldn't bear to let go when someone close to them died. The Pharaohs were mummified for different reasons, not speaking about them.

Then again, they mummified everything: cats, dogs, birds, crocodiles, hippos.