Mummies in Ancient Egypt

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Mummies in Ancient Egypt

• Teacher Wong Mun Sze
• Subject History
• Level S. 1

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What is this?
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MUMMY
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Why did the Egyptians make mummies?

• The Egyptians believed in the life after death.
  They thought that if the body of a dead person
  did not decay, he or she would live forever in
  another world.

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• How did the Egyptians make mummies?

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• 1. They took out the insides of a dead body.

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• 2. They put some salt and spices in the dead body.

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• 3. They wrapped it in cloth after drying it in
  the sun.

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• 4. They put the mummy in a coffin.

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• 5. They put the mummy and its coffins inside a
  large stone sarcophagus in the tomb.

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Activity

• Journey through the underworld

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THE END