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Tombs and Mummies

Ancient Egyptian Mummies

Ancient Egyptians believed that therewas a life after death called the'afterlife.' They also believed that abody had to be preserved after deathso that a person could safely reach theafterlife.

And so, they Egyptians made mummies

to preserve the dead bodies of kings,queens and nobles. Mummification was along, e pensive process that took about!" days to complete. Egyptians usedthe chemical natron to dry out the bodyand prevent it from rotting away.

#irst, the organs such as the stomach,intestines, lungs, and liver wereremoved from the body and preservedwith natron. The organs were then putin $ars called 'canopic $ars' to be placedne t to the body. The brain was thenpulled out of the head through the noseusing a long hook.

Then the body was covered with natronand dried for about %" days. Afterthat, the inside of the body wasstuffed so that it would keep its shape.Then the body was wrapped inbandages. #inally, a religious ceremonywas held to help the dead reach theafterlife.

Ancient Egyptian Mummies

& ( )hy did Egyptians preserve thebodies of dead people*

&+( )ho usually got made intomummies*

& ( -ow long did it take to make amummy*

&%( )hy did Egyptians use thechemical natron*

& ( )hat organs does the articlemention*

&/( )hat happened to the organs*

&!( )here were the canopic $arsplaced*

&0( )hat happened to the brain*

&1( -ow long was the body dried*

& "( )hy was the body stuffed*

& ( )hat was the body wrapped in*

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Ancient Egyptian Beliefs

Ancient Egyptians believed that there

was a life after death called the'afterlife.' They believed that theafterlife was a '#ield of 2eeds' wherepeople would live forever withoutsickness or death.

3ut not everybody was able to reachthe afterlife. 4nly people who were

good were allowed into the afterlife.And so, to prove they were good, thedead were put on trial.

The 5od Anubis &who had the head of a $ackal( brought the dead person to the-all of the 6ead. There, Anubisweighed the dead person's heart to seeif it was heavier than the '#eather ofTruth.' 7f a person was good then theirheart was lighter than the feather.

-owever, if a person had done many evilthings, their heart was heavier. 7n thatcase, the demon Ammit &who had thehead of a crocodile and body of a hippoand lion( ate the heart and the personcould not enter the afterlife.

#inally, if a person had a light heart,they were brought before the gods andhad to declare that they had done noevil in life. They had to swear they hadkilled nobody or committed no evil. 4nlythen could they enter the afterlife.

Ancient Egyptian Beliefs

& ( )hat did the ancient Egyptians

believe the afterlife was*

&+( )hat was the afterlife like*

& ( )ho was allowed to enter theafterlife*

&%( )ho weighed the hearts of the

dead*

& ( )hat did Anubis look like*

&/( )hat did Anubis weigh the heartagainst*

&!( )hat did it mean if the heart waslighter than the feather*

&0( )hat happened to the heart ifthe heart was heavier than thefeather*

&1( )hat did Ammit look like*

& "( )hat did the dead person haveto swear*

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The weighing of the heart against the feather of Ma'at .&5ive this image to students who read and e plain the article on Ancient Egyptian 3eliefs.

The students can use it to help e plain the weighing of the hearts and the passage to the

afterlife.(

8arcophagus with canopic $ars.

&5ive this image to students who read and e plain the article on Ancient EgyptianMummies . They can use it to e plain canopic $ars to their group.(



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