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The third and most economical means of embalming was "merely to scrub out the intestines and keep your body for seventy days in natron" (Ikram, 54, citing Herodotus). The inner organs were being taken off so as to help protect the corpse, but because it was believed the deceased would continue to need to have them, the viscera were put in canopic j