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When mummifying a body, the Egyptians removed the brain to keep the body from decaying faster. The organs were eventually removed (with the exception of the heart) and stored in canopic jars, allowing the body to be more well-preserved as it rested. Occasionally embalmers would break the bone behind the nose, and break the brain into small pieces so it could be pulled out through the nasal passage. The embalmers would then fill the skull with thick plant-based resin or plant resin sawdust.
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∙ 15y agoThey removed certain organs as they believed that they weren't needed in the afterlife. They left the heart as they believed that Anubis had to weigh the heart against the feather of truth. If the heart and feather were balanced, the deseased would proceed into the afterlife. If not, the heart would be fed to Ammit, th devourer or the dead, and the deseased would go no further.
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∙ 12y agoThe organs were taken out because they didn't see the meanings in them.
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∙ 13y agobecause decaying organs smell (like me)
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In Egypt a body preserved by drying?
Basically, a mummy.
What is a body preserved by drying is called?
It is called a mummy
What was the main body of water that ancient Egypt depended on was?
the nile river
Where did they make mummies?
Royal Treatment"First, they remove the brain through the nostrils with a curved iron implement, getting some of it out like this and the rest by pouring in solvents. Then they cut open the side of the corpse with a sharp Ethiopian stone, remove the intestines, and wash out the belly, cleaning it with palm wine and again with pounded aromatics. They fill up the body with pure crushed myrrh, cassia and other herbs (except frankincense) and sow it up again. After this, they pickle the body in natrum, [salt] hiding it away for seventy days, the longest time possible. After the seventy days, they wash the body and wrap it up completely in cut bandages of linen muslin, smearing it with gum which the Egyptians use instead of glue. The relatives then get the body back and make a man-sized wooden image, into which they insert the mummy and then store it away in a burial chamber, standing it upright against the wall."Deluxe Treatment"That is the most expensive way. The method for those wanting the middle way, to escape great expense, is as follows. They pack syringes with cedar-oil and fill the stomach of the corpse with the oil, not cutting it open and taking out the intestines, but inserting the oil through the anus and stopping it flowing out. Then they soak the body in spices for the prescribed number of days, on the last of which they remove from the belly the cedar-oil which they put in before. This has such strength that it brings out with it all the dissolved stomach and intestines. The natrum dissolves the flesh and only the skin and bones are left. When this is over, they return the body, their job completed."Bargain Treatment"The third method of embalming is the one used by the poorer classes. They just wash out the inside with a solvent, then pickle it for seventy days and return it to the relatives."
The process of covering a body with a chemical and wrapping it in strips of linen to preserve it is called?
The process of preserving a human or animal body with chemicals is called mummification. Mummies have been found on every continent, both as a result of natural mummification (extreme cold, low humidity, or lack of air) or deliberate mummification. The mummies of ancient Egypt are the most well known, but the practice flourished in South America and Asia as well. The oldest mummy is the body of a child found in the Camarones Valley of Chile, dated from around 5050 BCE.
In Egypt a body preserved by drying?
Basically, a mummy.
What is a dried and wrapped body called?
A mummy - as from ancient Egypt.
How to create a mummy?
The best way to create a mummy is to remove all the organs, dehydrate the body and then wrap the body in cloth.
What do you call a dead body emblam ed and preserved as in ancient Egypt?
Mummy
What do we call a dead body embaimed and preserved as in ancient Egypt?
It is called a mummy.
What dead body embalmed and prepared for burial in ancient Egypt?
It is called a "mummy".
Why do ancient bones still exist when the rest of the persons body is gone?
in Egypt they put the mummy in the pyramid
What sort of people remove a body's brain with a hook through the nose?
Egyptian mummy-makers would remove a body's brain with a hook through the nose!
What was hidden under the bandages of a mummy?
The body of the deceased minus a few body parts that were removed during the embalming process.
What boby parts were removed in ancient Egypt?
the internal body parts such as brain, intestine, etc
When doctors remove body parts from human patients where do the body parts go?
either in a furnace or are transplanted
What is a body preserved by drying is called?
It is called a mummy
