Mummies in Ancient Egypt Mummy Dead person or

Mummies in Ancient Egypt

Mummy • Dead person or animal whose body is preserved by: – Chemicals – Dry air – Extreme cold • Natural mummies in Ancient Egypt – Bodies buried in pits in the sand – Hot dry conditions dehydrated and preserved body.

Akhenaten and Tutankhamun’s Mummies

Queen Tiye’s Mummy (Mother of Akhenaten and Grandmother of Tutankhamun)

Don’t Unwrap the Mummies!!

Why Make Mummies? • Ancient Egyptians loved life. They wanted to continue “life” after they died. • Ancient Egyptians believed in an “afterlife”—a life that exists after you die. • To live in the afterlife, you need a body. • Ancient Egyptians believed in preserving their bodies so they could live in the afterlife.

Step 1. Wash the body with wine, water, and natron

Natron We can make historical natron from: • Salt (sodium chloride--Na. CL) • Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate--Na 2 CO 3) • Soda Ash/Washing soda (sodium carbonate-- Na 2 CO 3)

Step 2. Use a hook to take out the brain. Pour tree resin in skull.

Step 3. Make incision on left side of body. Remove liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines. (Heart stays in body. )

Step 4. Wash inside of body

Step 5. Cover body and organs with natron to dry them out. Keep for 40 -70 days.

Step 6. Massage body with scented oil, and coat body in pine resin.

Step 7. Put organs inside canopic jars.

Step 8. Make body beautiful. Paint in eyes. Cover fingernails in gold.

Step 9. Wrap body in linen strips. Fingers and Toes. Arms and Legs. Torso. Whole body.

Step 10. Put on mask so mummy can see. Put mummy in coffins. Put coffins in sarcophagus.

Coffins and Sarcophagus

Osiris, God of the Underworld and Rebirth Ancient Egyptians believed Osiris was the first mummy.

Anubis, God of Mummification

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