Mummification and Mummies in Ancient Egypt By Angela
Mummification and Mummies in Ancient Egypt By: Angela Saltamartini & Chauntine Marshal
Over many centuries, the ancient Egyptians developed a method of preserving bodies so they would remain lifelike. The process included embalming the bodies and wrapping them in strips of linen. Today we call this process mummification.
Mausoleum Culture Mausoleums were tombs built by the Egyptian elite to be visible and receive prayers and offerings in perpetuity. Predynastic cemeteries exhibit an increasing amount of social stratification through the development of larger and larger toms filled with great quantities of luxury goods and contrasting with several different levels of less wealthy burials.
Mummification Egyptian funerary belief that the body be preserved and given as lifelike appearance as possible.
Further advancement in mummification technique, especially for royal burials Resins used derived from tree sap Cosmetic treatments Body stuffed New Kingdom (ca. 1539 -1075 B. C. )
Padding materials introduced Skin painted Artificial eyes used of stone or glass Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1075 -656 B. C)
Organs sometimes packaged and placed between legs Decrease in amount of internal packing of the body Wrapping patterns more elaborate Saite Period (ca. 664 -332 B. C. )
Ptolemaic times (ca. 30530 B. C. ) some bodies carelessly preserved Roman rule (30 B. C. -A. D. 642) outer treatment done well yet body themselves minimal or no treatment Mummification came to an end w/ adoption of Christian religion Egyptian funerary art developed as a way of preservation Greco-Roman Egypt (ca. 332 B. C. - A. D. 642)
Indications of genuinely The Less Wealthy poor or mass burials Number of burials preserved sometimes reported only a fraction of estimated population Many people must have been disposed in ways that are now archaeologically invisible Some because of inadequate recordings, robbery, or destruction but also people probably had no formal graves of any kind http: //youtu. be/-MQ 5 d. L 9 c. QX 0
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