Ancient Egypt Death

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Ancient Egypt Death

• By
• Heather Harrison
• Nikolette Wardle
• Michael Busey

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The Ancient Egyptians believed after you died you
lived, in a different world with gods and
goddesses of the dead.
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Pharaohs and Queens were the richest of all. They
had very rich burials. The poor had modest
burials.
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Beliefs of the afterlife

• Egyptians believed that after you died you began
  a new life.
• They believed that they had one great wish .
• They would also traveled , to another world to
  live with gods and goddess of the dead.
• They believed that when you die Ba would come
  and take the persons soul and Ka would be your
  twin.
• Mummification was a long , complicated and
  expensive process.

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The Ba and Ka

• They believed that when a person died that his Ba
  and Ka would be released from the body.
• They believed that they could keep in contact
  that way.
• The thought that they could travel back and forth
  from the body.
• They also thought that they could return to their
  own body.

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• They say that it took over 70 days to prepare a
  body for burials.
• They worked close to where the mummies would be
  buried.
• They removed the brain out of the mummies nose.
• Their was some writing of their burials.
• Some have carved / shaped burials.

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Steps taken by the Egyptian embalmers to prepare
a mummy.

• It took about 70 days to
• prepare a body.
• The embalmers first took out the,
• inner organs. They cut a 7 inch
• opening in the left side of the
• body to remove the liver, lungs,
• stomach, and the intestines.
• They left the heart in place
• most of the time. However
• sometimes ,they removed it and replaced it with a
  stone
• scarab.
• Small bundles of natron ,were placed in the body
  cavity.

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Preparing a mummy continued

• The brain was then removed through the nose with
  a metal hook.
• Each of the organs was placed in a chemical
  (natron) and put in its own container called a
  canopic jar.
• The corpse was placed on a slanted embalming bed
  with a grove at the bottom.
• It was covered with natron a grainy chemical
  found in despite in the Nile river.
• Fluids from the corpse dripped in to the
  container as the body dried out .

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Preparing the mummy continued II

• Each organ was wrapped in
• linen and covered with a mask of a god.
• Each mummified organ
• was put into its own canopic jar.
• The lid of the canopic jars
• also bore the image of the god.

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