Egypt
Mummification

This is a picture of a priest, in the mask of the god Anubis, holding up a mummy in its case!!

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These are tools that were used in the process of mummification!!

These Jars are the 4 Canopic Jars that contain the organs of Mumab I

The Canopic Jars have the heads of 4 different gods of Egypt:

Imset

Duamutef

Qebehsenuf

Ha'py

These gods are guardians of the following organs.  The organ belongs to the god directly above it:

Liver

Stomach

Intestines

Lungs

Sometimes the ancient Egyptian's tucked jules and small important items under the strips of linen that was wrapped around their loved ones.

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The Story Behind Mummification
 
The process of mummification, or the process of preserving a dead body, was started by the god Osiris, the god of Death.  It started when Osiris's evil brother Set cut him into 14 separate peices and scatered them across the lands of Egypt.  Isis, Osiris's sister and wife, went to Anubis the jackel god and got help finding the peices of her husband and putting them back together.  They couldn't bring him back to life, but they still put in back together with strips of linen.  They wrapped everything but his hands, which hold the two royal septers of Egypt.
 
Steps in the Process
 
Mummification begins by bringing the corpse, or the dead body, into  
 
 
 


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