Egypt - Mummies

Mummy Process:

http://www2.si.umich.edu/chico/mummy/how.html

• When a person dies, people try to person body by mummifying them.
• First they wash the body in a river
• Second they remove a deceased person inner organs. 
• They dried the organs out and wrapped them.
• They put intestines in a jar with the head of a falcon.
• They put they put the stomach in a jar with the head of a jackal(dog)
• then they put the lungs in a jar with the head of a baboon 
• then the liver goes in a jar with the head of a human. 
• They put a hook up the nose of a person to get the brain out because they thought it was unimportant. (They threw the brain out) 
• Then they took the body and put it on a table and let it dry out for 40 days. 
• The head and body were stuffed packing
• The mummy was then prepared for bandaging
• It was wrapped in about 20 layers of cloth
• They decorated it (with gold and jewelry) 
• The mummy was then ready for burial (funeral) 
• The whole process took around 70 days 

Information on mummies:

- Pharaohs had the nicest funerals.

-The jars were transported to the tomb by a sleigh (with Santa!)  

-People were hired to show their grief by crying and throwing dust on their hair.

-Religious ceremonies were held to bring the dead person to afterlife
-The opening of the mouth ceremony is said to allow the person to see, hear, eat , and drink in the afterlife
- Allot of the mummies were destroyed by grave robbers.
-The mummies that survived were often pharaohs.
-Mummification is sometimes so well done that you can tell what the person looked like.
-Mummies can be dried out by extreme cold, sun, smoke, or using chemicals.
-They believe mummification was a passage way into the afterlife.
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