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Mummies
A mummy is the body of a person (or an animal) that has been preserved after death. Their organs (apart from the heart) are removed and placed in canopic jars. The bodies then go through a 70-day process before being wrapped in linen bandages.
872 Questions
Who played anaksunamun in the mummy?
Patricia Velasquez was born in Guajira, Venezuela on January 31, 1971.
Would a massless body have inertia?
Not a single body is present in this universe without mass but they can be weight less.
By definition, mass is the measure of the inertia of a body, so if the body were without mass (as some particles, for example), it would have no inertia.
Why do they call mummies 'mummies'?
The word comes from the Latin 'mumia', which means an embalmed corpse.
A wabet is an Egyptian place where the mummification process "embalming" takes place.
Where would you be buried if you are not a pharaoh?
Royal queens, princes and princesses might have their own mini-pyramid near the pyramid of the pharaoh. Noblemen and women, priests, officials and wealthy people were usually buried in a "mastaba"-type tomb, or a hidden chamber in a group of similar burials.
Ordinary people (the huge majority of the ancient Egyptian society) would simply be buried in a grave in the desert, perhaps along with a few pottery containers, a pair of sandals and some food offerings - with no coffin, no mummification, no inscriptions. Ironically, desert burials often preserved bodies just as effectively as mummification, since the sand and natural minerals dried the body quite quickly and preserved skin and organ tissues.
To answer your question: A mummy's case which is like a coffin is called a sarcophagus
Was mummification different for each gender?
No. The mummification process changed over time but was the same for both sexes as the aim was to ensure the "ka" (soul, lifeforce, etc) continued onto the afterlife and the process was the same for all.
What ancient Egyptian ceremony allowed a person to be nourished in the afterlife?
Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices. Death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through Mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment. Each human consisted of the physical body, the 'ka', the 'ba', and the 'akh'. The Name and Shadow were also living entities. To enjoy the afterlife, all these elements had to be sustained and protected from harm
Since I have never put my nose in one I really don't know, but I would think they wouldn't. The reason I say this is because the body parts put in them were prepared for the jar and they are so old and dried out that any smell they would have had wouldn't be there now. There could be a musty scent, but the people who handle this type of thing are very careful because of the age and there may also be bacteria in the jar that could hurt the researcher. I have seen many ancient artifacts in museums around the world and never "picked" up a scent from any item.
Why wasn't the heart removed from the corpse when the egyptians mummified bodies?
The heart actually was taken out. But then after it had been mummified it would be put back into place. The ancient Egyptians thought that the soul lived in the heart, so without it in place the soul was incomplete and therefore would not be able to move on to the afterlife.
No-- As far as I know, the movie 'The Mummy Returns' mentioning the 'Oasis Ahm-Shere' is merely a made-up sort of thing, something movie-makers tend to do to make movie plots much more interesting than history actually told (although history can be interesting in its own way).
How do Egyptian embalmers pull out brains?
by a hot metal hook sticking it up the dead's nose wiggle it around loosen the brain pull individual pieces out
What charms were used in mummification?
charms were used in the mummification process to make sure the soul re can reconize the charm of it's owner also the charm was to be also a gift for the afterlife
What are the three things that would assure the afterlife in Egypt?
1. clean the dead body
2.remove the organs out through the nose using a hook
3. stuff the body organs in canopy jars
How do you write the mummification process in hieroglyphics?
The usual term for the process in English is "embalming", referring to the special balms or ointments used to preserve the corpse.
In Ancient Egyptian, the word for "to embalm" is wt, which is related to another verb meaning "to bandage or wrap". Bandages are wtyw.
Another word for "to embalm" is sdwx.
Remember that hieroglyphs did not record vowels, so we can not know how these words were said.
