Then the body would be left to fry out for 70 days. After that they would pack the body with spices and fragrant things to make the body not smell like a usual decaying body. Now the body was wrapped in linen placed in a wooden coffin, that was placed in a golden sarcophagus, and that was placed in their tomb.
The burial site was handpicked by the pharaoh when he was choosing where he wanted to be buried. This normally happened very soon after the pharaoh came into rule, and the preparations were started immediately. The pyramids ranged in many different sizes, usually the longer the pharaoh was alive the bigger the pyramid. The reason for this was, once the building of a pyramid started, it never stopped. As long as the pharaoh lived the builder and architects just kept adding layers to the pyramid, or they added tunnels to the underground aspect of the