Process of mummification

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Process of mummification

• 4th hour History
• Megan Burleigh
• 11-6-06

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Introduction

• hi my fellow friends Im Senesrat and my father
  is an embalmer and today he is going to wrap the
  body of a little kid named Heka who died at the
  age of 5. So come with me on a journey all about
  mummification. Right this way,

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Step 1- Remove Organs

• Cut a slit in the chest and pull out the organs
  by hand
• Leave the heart
• We believe removing the heart means the Ka would
  not recognize his/her body

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Canonic jars
Falcon Jar
Jackal Jar
Baboon jar
Human Jar
Hapy
Duamutef
Qebehsenuef
Imsety
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Removing the brain

• -Once the organs were out and in their jars they
  remove the brain
• -To remove the brain they used a hook tool

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Drying out the body

• -It takes around 40 days for the drying process
  to be completely finished
• -My dad dried Heka in salt called natron
• -The body would become thinner and darker

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wrapping

• -Hands and feet
• -body
• -Things they put in the tombs

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Tombs

• -Things they put in the tombs
• -What was on the tombs

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Work sited