Mummification

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Mummification
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• Egyptians believed you passed into the afterlife
  with possessions and your body and would be used
  again
• also needed the soul to be able to recognize the
  body keep it preserved

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Who was mummified?

• pharaohs, priests, and nobles,
• also pets, especially cats

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The Process

• -embalmerswho prepared the body
• usually took about 70 days, drying out process
• priests performed ceremonyhigh priest wore an
  Anubis mask
• as few cuts in body as possiblethe cutter was
  chased out

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Step 1

• cut made under ribs to pull out stomach, lungs,
  liver, intestines, heart left for afterlife
  ritual weighing of the heart

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Step 2

• organs placed in canopic jars and spells placed
  on them to protect organs for joining the body
  latergods for each jar

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Step 3

• brain pulled out with a hook through the nostrils
  and trashed

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Steps 4-5

• body filled with and covered with natron (salt)
  to dry out
• after completely dry, at least 30 days, body is
  given sponge bath and cleaned

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Steps 6-7

• body packed with cloth to help shape, covered
  with oils, spices and perfumes
• body is wrapped in many layers of linen cloth,
  sometimes fingers and toes done one at time,
• -jewels, amulets place in layers and death mask
  over head

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During the Process

• In the meantime, workers and artists made coffin
  or sarcoughagus
• art, spells and stories on the outside, sometimes
  several within each other

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• possessions, art, furniture, boat, pets, and
  instructions for journey included in the tomb,
  Book of the Deadspells and instructions

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