You wouldn

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You wouldnt want to be an Egyptian mummy!
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Introduction

• Ancient Egypt began about 5000 years ago beside
  the river Nile.
• The pharoahs had huge monuments built for them so
  they would always be remembered.
• Ancient Egyptians believed in the afterlife

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Dead?

• Ancient Egyptians take a lot of trouble
  preparing for the afterlife
• The bodies are preserved by embalming and
  mummification.

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Removing the organs

• After your body has been cleaned, it is taken to
  the place of embalming called the wabet.
• A slicer priest will make a long cut alongside
  the left side of your stomach.
• Natron salt is used to dry out your
• body once the organs have been
• removed.

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Storing the organs

• Your liver, lungs, stomach and intestines are
  removed through the incision in your stomach and
  then stored in canopic jars. Each jar is
  protected by one of the four sons of the God
  Horus and the lid of the jar is shaped like its
  protectors head.
• The body is washed out with palm wine and will be
  soaked in natron for 40 days to dry it out.

Which organ is not removed?
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Get stuffed!

• After 40 days your skin will be shrivelled and
  you will look like a piece of old leather. So
  your skin is rubbed with oils to make it softer.
• The empty space where your organs were will be
  stuffed with sawdust and rags.
• With some false eyes and hair you will almost
  look alive again.

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Wrapped and ready

• The embalmers work is almost done and soon you
  will be a mummy.
• It will take 15 days to wrap you up and you will
  need 20 layers of bandages. If you were sensible
  you would have saved linen for the whole of your
  life for this purpose.
• Resin was use to glue the bandages together.

What bandages did the Egyptians use?
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The coffins

• Once wrapped up you will need a good wooden
  coffin.
• The coffins should have pictures of Gods on them
  and lots of hieroglyphics.
• A nest of coffins will be placed in your tomb,
  inside a stone coffin called a sacrcophagus.

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What a mummy needs for a blissful afterlife.

• Have the wall of your tomb painted with pictures
  of you.
• Stock your tomb with food, clothes. Weapons,
  furniture and tools.
• It is the duty of your relatives to bring you
  gifts of food, so you dont go hungry

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The end

• Once your tomb has been sealed, your soul will
  battle its way through the underworld and your
  heart will be weighed against the feather of
  truth.

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Quick quiz

• Why was Tutankhamuns body not preserved well?
• What is Natron?
• Who is the God of embalming?

• The embalmers used too much oil and his flesh
  stuck to the sides of the coffin.
• A natural salt used to dry out the body.
• Anubis- a jackal headed God.

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Quick quiz

• How many days is the body left before it is
  stuffed?
• What wine was use to clean the body?
• What is a canopic jar?

• 40
• Palm wine
• Four jars in which the embalmed stomach, lungs,
  liver and intestines were stored.