Mummified Crocodiles

Do you know what a mummy is? A mummy is the body of a person or an animal that has been preserved after death by a special process called mummification. The Ancient Egyptian God Sobek was depicted as a crocodile, a mummified crocodile or a man with the head of a crocodile. The Egyptians mummified both infant and mature crocodiles, and even buried crocodile eggs with a dead person in order to enlist the protection of Sobek in the afterlife for that person!