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The brain, organs, and blood were removed, limiting the bacterial damage to the bones, muscles, and skin. Treated wrappings and sealed sarcophagi kept air, moisture, and insects out. The burial vaults limited the damage from excessive heat or cold. These steps kept the skin from rotting or aging, but after hundreds of years, the body parts have become brittle. Without careful handling, it could crumble to dust.
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What are facts about about mummies?
cat mummies were placed with mice to keep them from getting lonely
Are mummy's are real or myth?
Mummies are real, but the walking mummies are fake. (fun fact:Each night in Egypt, they put food next to the mummies tomb thinking they will eat it.Actually, the animals eat it, but they don't know that.So... they keep on doing it.)
What are mummies wrapped in long ago?
because when people died, it helped keep out the stench.
Where are mummies kept today?
In their tombs. However, when their tomb were robbed, their bodies were often moved and hidden in caches.
Why was an onion put in a mummy's hand?
The reason why an onion was placed in a mummies hand was for its strong smell to keep animals away.
Why did the eygptians wrap mummies in cloth?
To keep the body from withering away and to make it so the pharohs had some sort of body in the afterlife :-)
What are facts about about mummies?
cat mummies were placed with mice to keep them from getting lonely
What is the only organ that mummies keep for the after life?
The heart.
Are mummy's are real or myth?
Mummies are real, but the walking mummies are fake. (fun fact:Each night in Egypt, they put food next to the mummies tomb thinking they will eat it.Actually, the animals eat it, but they don't know that.So... they keep on doing it.)
Why do the Egyptians wrap the mummies?
to preserve their bodies for the eternal after life, and to keep the bodies from decaying
What are mummies wrapped in long ago?
because when people died, it helped keep out the stench.
Where are mummies kept today?
In their tombs. However, when their tomb were robbed, their bodies were often moved and hidden in caches.
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Why did they stop making Mummies?
The egyptions stopped making mummies because first a fall they believed that if they will wrap the dead body with the white cloth and keep some belongings of that dead body like clothes ,cups in which they drink something so in a day or two that dead person will be alive but when scientists and acheologists reserched on that particular thing they found that the dead body eaten by the insects and then they told this thing to the people of egypt so they stopped making mummies.
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