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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
Do embalmers take the organs out the body?
yes they do they take the liver, lungs , stomach and intestines
How long was the average length of linen bandage to wrap Egyptian mummy?
Hundreds of yards of linen were used to carefully wrap a mummy. As many as 20 alternating layers of bandages have been counted on one mummy. More linenstrips were wrapped around the body. At every layer, the bandages are painted.
Autopsies, which can help find out how people died. Also, we humans would not know as much about the human body and all the things that are contained in us. The mummification belief has helped us improve in medicine and medical systms.
When a person or animal dies, bacteria on the body causes it to decompose, eventually leaving just the skeleton behind. But sometimes, if the conditions are just right, a body will be mummified instead. A mummy is any dead body where the fleshy parts have been somehow preserved.Ancient mummies do not decay because they have been preserved.The blackened corpses were mistakenly credited to the use of bitumen in the embalming process.Not all mummies come from Egypt and are wrapped. In fact, mummies come from all over the world and have been found on every continent.
In ancient Egypt,only priests and his assistants were allowed to make mummies.The whole process takes 70 days.
Because with a Mummy, the tissues are preserved. Where as with a fossil, you have no tissue. You're really only left with fossilized bones.
Go back in time to Ancient Egypt with a time machine, ask the Egyptian God Guy and ask him how to make a shabti......easy peasy
What organ did they put in the Egyptian jars?
The jars are called canopy jars and each one were charged with safekeeping a particular human organ (or organs).
Duamutef - the jackal-headed god protected the stomach in his jar.
Qebehsenuaf - the falcon-headed god protected the intestines in his jar.
Hapi - the baboon-headed god protected the lungs in his jar.
Imseti - the human-headed god protected the liver in his jar.
What are the penalties for stealing?
Auto theft is a felony offense (more than one year in prison), and if you drive the vehicle across a state line, it changes from a state crime and becomes a federal offense.
Who would wear the mask of Anubis when a Pharaoh was mummified?
I hope this link will help you find out more about the "mask of Anubis" from the TV show "House of Anubis".
How did the ancient Egyptians mummify bodies?
the answer is that egyptians learnt about medicine by the mummification process, when they mummified, they looked through the body, so they were able to figure out what medicine would fix what sickness
Were normal egyptians mummified?
Yes. But it depended on your money that time, the poor got a less 'quality' mummification while nobles got it more higher qualified and it goes on till the pharaos and there family who got the best qualified mummification; depends on how much would you pay the priest when you want to get mummified.
Mummification was important because the Egyptians thought that they would need their bodies when they passed on to the after-life so they mummified their bodies.
Why did the Ancient Egyptians create mummies?
The ancient Egyptians believed in mummies because they had a strong belief in the afterlife. Once they had the dead bodies they would wrap them. Then Egyptians believed that gods would weigh their life against a feather and if had a good life they would make it into the afterlife. The afterlife was said to be another world for dead people. So the Egyptians believed that mummies would live in the afterlife.
What does the falcon canopic jar hold?
The falcon's head represents Qebehsenuet, one of the four sons of Horus. It holds the intestines
What did they wash the mummies body with?
they just washed it with a bar of soap and very very very hot water after that the spilled cold water over it so they beived it would keep away the evil spirits
What happened with the organs during the mummification process?
They got preserved and put into jars to accompany them into the afterlife
Why was mummification a good way to preserve the body?
By mummification, a dead body can be preserved for 400/500 years without any deterioration. Com.Lenin's body mummified in the 18th century is still preserved in Russia and a consensus is growing up for burial.
Why did they do mummification?
To preserve their bodies, they would take out all the organs ect... because they thought they would get to the after life quicker.
How was the burial of rich and poor Egyptians different?
Only the pharaoh and nobles could afford to be made into mummies and have a proper burial, lower class were put in coffins and thrown into the desert. (The sand preserves the bodies naturally).
What is it called when you wrap a mummy?
they took a hook through the nose and took out the brain, pulled out all of the organs and put them in special jars. then wrapped it in linen and placed it in a decorated coffin. this took about 70 days.
Where was queen Cleopatra's body found?
They have not found Cleopatra's body. However the search for her tomb is being carried out at this time.
