Mummies

what you do to create mummies is get a dead person or something like a person and wrap them or it in tolit paper because you can not get the recourses from Egypt and wrap the person or something completely and then put them in a wooden coffin or casket and write ancient Egyptian letters and paint there gods and your done i did this for a history report and i got an A

Ancient Egyptians would use molten resin to stuff this material in the mummy's body during the process of mummification.

Ancient and modern-day Egypt are slightly the same, and maybe even related. It is still a better life for the wealthy than the poor, and many Egyptians who are still alive today practice the crafts they made in ancient times, like basket weaving. Also, the Nile River is still very important to the modern Egyptians, just as it was many years ago. The flooding of the Nile was very predictable back then, so ancient Egyptians could decide when the Nile would flood and bring rich and fertile soil mixed with rocks, sometimes called silt. The Nile River still floods at about the same times, and still brings silt at the same time every year. Farming is also important to Egyptians today and long ago. Today, people gather plants such as clover to feed their animals. They still used farming for that purpose in ancient times. So one could definitely conclude that Egypt is still alike what it was in ancient times. On the other hand, Egypt has changed quite a bit from what it was thousands and thousands of years ago. People do not celebrate their religion as they did long ago. For example: · They no longer create mummies or pyramids. · They do not believe in the same gods and goddesses as they did in ancient times. · They aren't even a part of polytheism, or worship of many gods. · Most Egyptians are now Muslims and worship Allah instead of other goes. Another way that Egypt has changed is their government. Many millenniums ago, Egyptians believed that Pharaohs, their leaders, were sons of the god Horus, and therefore were gods as well. Nowadays, they do not believe in those gods, as I said earlier, and instead have presidents.

they would place it in a sarcophagus with the mummys belonging

Wool was used to make portrait masks.

Pharohs weren't actually buried in pyramids, there are little rooms inside the pyramids that the parohs and their possesions were put in. but first they went through the mumification process. so the pharos were stored in rooms in their coffins. sometimes they even got a whole pyramid dedicated to them. depending on how important they were.

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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.

To make Natron you will need Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) and Sodium Chloride (Table Salt). Measure equal quantities of both 50/50 and mix together.

Important Note:

Natron is a desiccant which means that it absorbs water. You should therefore keep your mix in an airtight container to prevent it from adsorbing moisture from the atmosphere.

Ancient Egyptians left human bodies in Natron for around 4

0 days to completely dry however, you will need to experiment with these times dependant on the size of the specimen to be mummified.

The heart was considered more important to facing the afterlife than the brain. The brain would be mashed by stirring with a metal prong inserted through the nose, and the brain hooked out and discarded.

About a month because the whole process of Mummification takes 70 days (2 months)

Ahmose was a famous pharoah and his name ment the moon is born. He ruled ancient Egypt for 25 years from 1525 to 1520 he was the 18th distinty

Archaeologist Howard Carter unearthed Tutankhamun's treasure-filled tomb in 1922, the first discovered with its riches so intact but Carter and his team partly destroyed the mummy in search of more treasures buried with the pharaoh, separating it into 18 sections. Humidity and heat, much of it generated by the breath of the tomb's 5,000 daily visitors, have also taken a toll. Right now the mummy has no special protection from the humidity in the tomb. A new case will be specially sealed to protect it from this sort of damage.


You might be asking about the mummy curse. The person who funded the discovery of King Tut's Tomb, died shortly after the discovery. The path to his death began in the spring of 1923 when he was bitten on the cheek by a mosquito. During his morning shaving routines, he further aggravated the mosquito bite. It soon became infected and Lord Carnarvon found himself ill. He suffered a high fever and chills. A doctor was sent to examine him but medical attention arrived too late and Lord Carnarvon died. At that exact moment the lights in Cairo mysteriously went out. Once Carnarvon died the media went wild with stories of his death. They claimed King Tut wanted vengeance and announced a mummy's curse, which targeted those who had entered the tomb. Not only did the death of Carnarvon get all the people in an uproar but other stories began to surface as well. Of the stories that surfaced, two remain prominent. One of the prominent stories is that a cobra killed Howard Carter's pet canary after the discovery of King Tu's tomb. The other story is that Lord Carnarvon's dog howled and dropped dead at two in the morning when Carnarvon died.

Egyptians used salt and many other natural resources to perserve the bodies of the dead because they believed in the after life of a person.

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It is a part of the process of 'Mummification'. The purpose of this is predominantly to preserve the bodies and reduce decay. The Ancient Egyptians believed that you couldn't go to the afterlife without a body and therefore mummification was used to preserve the body, therefore giving the deceased a body to use in relatively good condition when they reached the afterlife.

They embalmed the mummy by removing all organs, excepting the heart which was thought to be the center of all thought and intelligence and was needed for the weighing against the feather in the Hall of Truth. The other organs were put in canopic jars. The brain is discarded. After the body was dried of moisture, it was filled with sawdust, resins and linens saturated in essential oils.

The actual wrapping in linen is to further preserve the body from decay and rot. They also used to put treasures in between the layers of linen such as amulets to protect the body from evil spirit on the journey to the afterlife.

I guess, reading in between the lines, you could say that the linens were a protective measure and also used to place treasures close to the body. They also did it because when Set tried to murder his brother Osiris by putting him in a crypt & throwing him in the Nile until his wife Isis found him and tried to hide his body from her spouse's murderous brother until set found him & then cut his body into 14 pieces and scattered them all through-out Egypt so then Isis gathered the pieces WRAPPED THEM UP IN LINEN , turned herself into a bird and beat her wings on her dead husband until.... he got ressurected and became the god of eternal death and life - ironic isn't it?

The organs were removed from the body and put in jars
The organs were placed in canopic jars. They had the four sons of Horus(Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef) as the top cap of the jars. The heart was not placed in the canopic jars because the Egyptians thought that it was the controller of the body-as if it was the brain.
The internal organs of bodies were removed before mummification and placed in special containers called canopic jars, which were entombed along with the mummy.

King Tut's mask was made around the time of the Ancient Egytians. You can tell because he was an Egytian pharaoh (king).

Because they believed the person would need their physical body in the next life. If the body decayed away the person could not properly function in the next life. That is also why the person's wealth and slaves were frequently also buried with rich Egyptians, they would be needed in the next life also to retain the person's social rank.

The first mummifications of Human or animal remains were not invented, but part of a natural process of dehydration, whether through cold exposure (such as in high mountains) or heat (such as in deserts).

The most famous mummies are those from Egypt, of course, where desert heat and natron were used along with bitumen to preserve remains. Other well-known mummies are those in South-America and certain parts of Asia.

Japan once had a series of monks who acted upon dehydration regimes to become "living mummies", effectively starving and dehydrating themselves to death until they became mummified at the onset of death.

People continued to be buried according to their customs after Rome took over Egypt. The Romans were generally cremated while the Egyptians were interred.

There was a high infant mortality rate.

A 40 or 50 year old person was considered quite old.