The king's body is excellently preserved, apart from that heart thing, and the embalmers were able to maintain his facial features to an extraordinary degree.
Fletcher described the find as " like a time machine, really… It's allowed us to not quite see over the shoulders of the ancient embalmers, but probably as close as we'll ever get."
Next, the embalmer makes another incision, this time under your ribcage, and inserts a metal suction tool called a trochar attached to a pump system into your chest cavity.
The king is bald, no hair survives on his scalp, but it's unclear if Seti had lost his hair or whether he shaved it, or perhaps the embalmers did so after his death.
I attended the memorial. It was open casket and I found myself searching her face. The embalmers hadn't gotten her lips right—the gracious smile she'd worn like an iron mask had been stripped away.
You find it hard to watch the embalmer stuff your nose and throat with cotton to prevent any smells or fluids from leaking out, but even worse is watching them dry out your eyeballs!