Alex Dietrich
- Why did the Ancient Egyptians prepare they body in a certain way?
- So their body did not decay
- Created steps called embalming to stop decay
- So their ka could enjoy the afterlife
- What were the steps the Ancient Egyptians used to preserve a dead body?
- First organs except heart removed by priest then placed in Canopic jar
-The organs were removed from a cut in the left abdomen
-A Canopic jar is taller than wide, with a carved head as the lid
- brain removed from nostrils
- body put in wood box and covered in natron, (salt)
- dried over 40 days
- washed in oil
- wrapped in cloth, sometimes covered in momia a black slimy substance
- What items did the Ancient Egyptians bury with the dead?
- cloth type, poor-old clothes, middle-cloth, wealthy-good cloth
- buried, poor, in ground,
- middle, simple funeral in wood box in cave or sand,
- rich, better celebration, coffin, in tombs,
- Pharaohs, Grand Ceremony, coffin with sarcophagus around, in Mastabas or a little later pyramids and much later in time secret places so tomb robbers couldn’t find them, special boats built for journey to burial grounds.
-A sarcophagus is an outer shell for the coffin that is painted with designs
- Items buried with, food, water, adornment, (jewelry), treasure (pharaohs), clothes, games
Images Sources:
[Image] http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=139 . September 16 2015. Web.
[Image] http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=3460 . September 16 2015. Web.