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Mummies By Nicholas 4C

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MummiesBy Nicholas 4C

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Who were Mummies?

Mummified body.

Kept after death.

Can be a person or Animal.

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Mummification

They took brain out and left heart.

Specialized workers put organs in canopic jars.

Wrapped in cloth.

Wrapped to conserve body

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Funerals

Used to celebrate.

Buried or put in temples.

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Curses

Tutankhamen’s curse.

Howard Carter died from curse in 1921.

Biggest curse Tutankhamen’s.

Died from touching him.

Died 6 months later.

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Fun facts

Heart was center of smartness.

Had celebrations.

Took out brain from there nostril.

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Connections to the past

Wrap to Unwrap.

Tomb to graveyard.

Mummification in 3000bc not big deal now a big deal.

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Reference

Giardino Dei Saperi

www.Woodlandsjunior.com