Mummification
Published on Mar 31, 2016
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Ancient Egypt
The ancient Egyptians started didn't preserve the body's until centuries after they buried them in small pits and holes. They would bury the body with things the person used to enjoy, cloth, food, vases. So they would have them in the after life.
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Once the Pharos or king died the embalmer would set to work. First they would pull the brain out of his nose with a hook, make a slit on his left side, near his stomach. Remove all the internal organs, dry the organs, place the organs into specific pots.
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The liver liver was put in the pot with the human head, the lungs were put in the pot with the baboon head. The stomach in the pot with the jackal head, and the intestines in the falcon head. These pots were called canopic jars. You can see some at the base of the bed
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It would take them a very long time to actually preserve these body's. After the Oran's were dried and put in the pots, they would put the heart back into the body. Then they would rinse the body in wine and spices, wash it with the Nile water, then cover it with salt for seventy days.
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They would burry the body with food, clothes, and things the person enjoyed. Such as a game, or maybe even a pet. They would kill and mummify a pet if the family agreed.
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After fourty days they would stuff the body with either sand or linin, to form the body shape. Then after the seventy days are up they rap the body almost twenty inches thick! Then they place the. Odd into the coffin and bring it to the tomb.
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Modern day Egypt
Modern day Egypt is a lot different then ancient Egypt.
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Modern day Egypt is a lot different than most other cultures. Each family owns a mausoleum. No matter how poor the family is. They still have one.
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A mausoleum is a building that has one room. Once someone dies they go to the room and dig up a metal plate, ten centimeters in the ground. They head into a stair case leading into a tunnel. The tunnel leads to two rooms. The family will Carrie the body into the room.
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There's a room for woman and a room for men. The family will take the body into the room and lay him next to the other body, take a handful of sand and throw it on the body. When there done, they go back up and burry the entrance again.
As you can see the two cultures are very different. Thank you!
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