How did the Egyptians preserve people?

Embalming was the ancient Egyptian practice of preserving a human body after death with various chemicals and wrapping it in linen cloth to prevent it from decaying as part of a funerary preparation.

To embalmers of ancient Egypt (who embalmed all the dead with great skill using special materials they had), the brain was a soft useless thing. When an upper class Egyptian died, an embalmer cut the brain into liquid which could be poured, and removed it through the nostrils with hooked implements without damaging facial tissue.