Can't decide what to dress your pet as for Halloween? How about a mummy? An article in the November issue of National Geographic magazine shows that animal mummies were all the rage in ancient Egypt.
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Researchers have used state-of-the-art CT scanning technology to virtually unwrap ancient Egyptian mummies. In an attempt to better understand how people lived and died in the ancient Nile Valley 4,000 years ago, curators at the British Museum have teamed up with scientists and medical experts to digitally look inside eight mummies.
Spanish archaeologists found ancient mummies with gold tongues in their mouths in Minya, Egypt.
Discover how the Ancient Egyptians made mummies.
Warning! This post contains a lot of images of dead people. I've edited out the scarier ones, but it's not for the squeamish. Fairly recently, a very well qualified lady called Joann Fletcher carried out a very thorough study of just about all the mummy hair found in Egyptian tombs. In an interview she said.. As…
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.
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The mummy and mummy case of an Egyptian princess date to the 21st dynasty, from 1075 to about 950 bc. They are now in the collection of the British Museum, in London, England.
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I figured going from Halloween to Ancient Egypt would be an appropriate transition since we often see mummies around Halloween. ;) Th...
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The ancient Egyptians did not believe that life ended at death. The souls, the Ka and the Ba, went on living, but would die if the body disappeared. So around 2700 BC the Egyptians began embalming their dead. The technique was continuously improved, reaching its peak around 800 BC. The internal organs were removed through an incision in the left flank, but the heart had to remain in position. Sometimes the brain was also extracted. Then the body was covered with natron, a naturally occurring mixture of sodium carbonate and bicarbonate, which dried it out. One month later the bone-dry body was covered in resin, and resin was poured into the body. The interior organs were dried and put back into the body, or separated into four Canopic jars, the lids of which were decorated with specific heads of gods. The wrapping up of the mummy in linen lasted another month. Worn textiles were reused. Amulets were occasionally placed inside the linen bandages. The most important of these was the dung beetle, the so-called heart-scarab, which was supposed to protect the dead at the tribunal of Osiris. Finally the mummy was placed in one or more coffins, placed one inside the other, according to the means of the family.
