Canopic Jars: because the ancient Egyptians weren’t about to let something as trivial as death mess with their internal organ game. In their culture, preserving the body was essential for a successful journey to the afterlife, and who better to guard the organs than the Four Sons of Horus?

When someone died, their organs were stored in four decorated clay pots (canopic jars), each topped with a different head representing the sons of the god Horus. Hapi the baboon protected the lungs, Qebehnsenuf the falcon guarded the intestines, Duamatef the jackal watched over the stomach, and Imsety the human safeguarded the liver.

And the brain? Not so important. The heart was considered the centre of the body and soul, so the brain was simply tossed away.