Burial Practices

Ijeoma Modilim

 

                                          

Paragraph 1: What process did the Egyptians create to preserve the dead body so it wouldn’t decay?

1. Embalming

Paragraph 2 _{question 1}: What was the only inner organ the priest left inside the body?

1. The heart

Paragraph 2 _{question 2}: What is natron?

1. Type of salt
2. Used to dry up dead body

Paragraph 3: What is the large stone container that a Pharaoh’s coffin is stored in called?

1. Sarcophagus
2. Many people had goods put into their coffins
3. It was to help their ka have good afterlife

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The Embalming

1) Take out the inner organs except for the heart

2) Remove the brain by hooking it through the nostrils

3) Put the body in wooden boxes and put natron on it

4) Wait 40 days

5) Wash it, oil it, and wrap body in several hundred yards of fabric

6) Spread black gooey substance called momia

[Image]http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/special/virtual_library/nef_tomb_crafts.html. September 16, 2015.Web.  

[Image]http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/special/virtual_library/amenhotep_mourned2.html. September 16, 2015. Web.