Mummies

They were mummified to be preserved. It is also in the Egyptians' belief that when they mummified them, and put items in their coffins, they would use them in the underworld where they went after they died. However, only rich families could afford mummification, it was highly expensive.

They used: linen, natron, hooks, canopic jars, cloth, stone, paint, and a table

they used a hook, the hook went up the nose the stirred up the brain and it came easily out

By the will Of Allah (SWT)

Allah has written in the Qur'an that he would preserve this pharoh's body as a sign to the sinners of mankind.

this is that same pharoh that lived in the time of the prophet mosos.

Read his story in the Qur'an

The earliest examples of intentionally mummified human remains were made by the Chinchorro. The oldest Chinchorro mummy found is around 7,060 years old.

Pharaoh are not buried, they are mummified. Their brains are picked out with a metal hook, and their bodies are wrapped in gaus and put into a casket. They are then stored in an intricate maze-like pyramid, so grave robbers cannot steal the dead pharaoh. They are not buried.

Because they beleived in afterlife. My Favourite part is when the take the brain out of the nose. Yum. they stuff all the organs into a canopic Jar but leave the heart in there, Incase he gets Hungry, Just Joshing, They believe that everything came from the heart not the brain. mmmhmmmm. Only rich ppl got mummified 'cause it costeded moneyy, Not good, eh? All the poor ppl died usually, what losers. :) anyway, The point is, they beleived that the bodies would go to afterlife because that way they would live eternally. they new the world was eventually gunna end.

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You spell it like this : sarcophagus so you spelt it right

The Mummy shaped figures you are talking about may be "Shabtis." These were small statues placed in a tomb with the body. They were in the form of humans, also mummified, and served as slaves or servants in the afterlife. Egyptians believed that leaving the Shabtis with the mummy would ensure easy living in the Duat*. They would be inscribed with spells and enchantments. These said that they would do anything the deceased ordered.

* Egyptian afterlife, land of the dead

You can tell several things fron a mummy about that persons life, you can sometimes tell social status, gender, health, physical attributes. With modern technokogy you can perform several test such as mri's, cat scans, and DNA that can give more info in the inside of mummy.

bury the dead

I think they dound the dead bodies and demanded to know

all people who were important enough to be mummified were most likely going to be put in a tomb so their afterlife goes well, and their ka and ba find the body again so i would say yes.

Most times there was a whole they dug and just filled it up then started a new one

1. Take the brain out and throw it away.

2. Make an incision take out the intestines, lungs, kidney, liver and put them in canopic jars.

3. Drain the blood and fill the dead body with natron salt or sawdust.

4. Leave the body for 40-50 days.

5. Take the natron salt or sawdust out of the body.

6. Fill the incision with linen

7. Cover the body in resin.

8. Coat the body in linen.

9. Put amulets on the dead body.

10. Coat the body in linen again

11. Hire a skilled goldsmith to make a tomb

12. Put the tomb into a sarcophagus

13. Put the sarcophagus into a pyramid.

Most Egyptians live in EGYPT.

I'm Egyptian, we live in apartments villas palaces we have worldwide hotels spas and golf courts we have worldwide companies we have i pods i phone and blackberries , we have all the brand names in Egypt we don't mummfy people now we don't live in tents we don't go to school on camels we have cars like all the other countries some have ferraris we have airports we have very good schools ,alot like to learn alot of languages, international and private schools teach English french and German from kindergarten, we're not a bunch of ignorant people we know the cultures of all the other countries we're very civilised and we're all seeking to make Egypt a better place we have alot of beautiful sceneries like the nile ,luxor and aswan ,sharm el sheikh ,hurghada , dahab ,the pyramids ,Alexandria ,old cairo, khan el khalili and korba. egyptians are very friendly we treat our visitors from all over the world very generously :)

If a teacher is asking this question, they are looking for a geographic type answer like most Egyptians live close to the Nile River. The Nile Valley is only one mile wide at some points, and it is just 12 miles across at its widest. So almost all Egyptians live on less than 5 percent of the nation's land.

The main reason for mummification was to preserve the body of the dead person usually the pharohs would be mummified to a high standard to help them in their journey into the afterlife. Cool.

The body needed to be able to reach the place of the God in heaven, to be as near actual life as possible, and to enter that heaven for the greater life. Some had chariots in the burial chamber with them, presumably to ride in the chariots once they enter heaven, or perhaps to use the chariots to get to that heaven.

they left the heart in so they could be judged.

embalemers

Yes it was in the late 196o's by W.B. Emery at North Saqqara, tomb 3518.B (as there is also a 5th Dynasty tomb with the same number at Saqqara North cemetery). The discovert is only described Emery's preliminary reports, published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology as Emery died in 1971 before he could write a final report.

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The bodies of pharaohs and other ancient egyptians that could afford to be mummified. And the bodies were wrapped in linen with leaves, and sawdust inside the body to replace the internal organs.

Another Answer: A mummy is a human being who had his internal organs removed, his flesh rubbed down with preservatives and wrapped up with cloth, and was placed in a sarcophagus (a type of coffin). This was done to keep the body from rotting. Though eventually they rotted pretty good anyway.

I wouldn't exactly call it fascination but obsession instead. It is us who are very fascinated. For them, they just want to go to the afterlife and prepares for it [more than half of their lifetime] considering for them, living is just a few decades while afterlife is eternal.