Mummy Brains

This is "Ginger," the oldest known mummy. They think he was alive in 3300BC. Appropriately for the Halloween season, we are studying Ancient Egypt. The question from Nicholas today was:

Who removes the brain of a person before it becomes a mummy?

First, we learned that a mummy's brain was not considered important. They thought that thinking was done in the heart, which was the only organ left in the body when mummified. They removed the brain through the nose, usually with a long wire with a hook on the end. The brains were removed by embalmers.
If you want to learn more, check out this site:
http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/egyptmummy.htm