Burial Practices

Ryan
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Sixth period
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An afterlife was strongly believed in the Ancient

Egyptian culture

o The dead person's spirit couldn't enjoy their afterlife if the burial
process wasn't done in a cetin way.
o The person's body couldn't rot, decay, or be damaged in any way.
If so the person's Ka wouldn't be recognized.
o Egyptians developed a process that stops the body from decaying
called embalming.

There are many steps to preserve a dead body so

it doesn't decay

o Priests would remove all of the inner organs, except the heart, and place them
in a limestone or pottery container called a canopic jar.
o The embalmers and priests then took the brain out by hooking it threw the
nostrils.
o Then the body was placed in a wooden box and would be covered by a type of
salt called natron which caused the body to dry out.
This picture is o The priests then washed, oiled, and wrapped the body in
from
several yards of fabric after 40 days.
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Burying the body

o Items would be buried that the person would need and use in their daily life
with them.
o The poor people would get a simple burial ceremony but the pharaoh's and the
pharaoh's family would have burial ceremony would be very delicate and
special.
o Royal people's body would be put into a large stone containers called a
sarcophagus.
o Later in Egyptian life dead Egyptians would be placed into to temples in secret
hiding spots because of tomb robbers.

Good Luck Charms

o Amulets( magic charms) were placed into the mummy's bandages to protect
the mummy.
o Every amulet would have its own special meaning of luck.
o One of the winged goddesses that protected the dead was called either Isis of
Nepthys.

Sources: Good luck charm- Chrisp, Peter. Ancient Egypt Revealed. New York City: DK
publishing, 2002. Mummification page. Mummification. The British
Museum, 1999. Web. Sept. 9, 2009