The Pharaoh’s Mysterious Jars of Eternity They may look like simple stone jars… but these are the Canopic Jars — sacred containers used by the ancient Egyptians to preserve the most vital organs of the dead for the afterlife. Each jar had a divine guardian carved on its lid, representing one of the Four Sons of Horus — protectors of the stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver. The heart was left inside the body, believed to be the seat of the soul. These jars once held the essence of a Pharaoh — h