Mummy Makers

Someone who preserves a body for burial as the ancient Egyptians did. The Egyptians preserved bodies by the use of bitumen, spices, gums, natron, honey, etc. In the more expensive forms of embalming, the body was cut open and filled with preservatives, after the viscera were separately preserved in canopic jars (Webster's).

"It is better to think out one true thought,
than to mummy our benumbed souls
with the circumvolutions of twenty thousand books."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Some account of the Greek Christian Poets (1842).