1/2/2024 0 Comments Natron mummyThe mourners would follow, lamenting loudly both to show grief and to banish the evil spirits. The coffin would be transferred to the tomb on a sled pulled by bulls. Learn more about taking on the other side of history. Was then placed in a wooden or cartonnage coffin. Hence, the poor had to start the afterlife without organs. After a while, the oil would be released, and the dissolved internal organs would flow out. If the family could not afford the full process, the embalmers would inject oil into the body through the anus. (Image: eldeiv/Shutterstock) The Cheap Way of Dying The Canopic jars were used to hold the organs and keep them safe for the afterlife. Finally, the body was washed and wrapped in linen bandages. ![]() In the remaining 70 days, the body would lie in natron powder so that the humidity was all absorbed, but the skin was not blackened and hardened. All this happened in the first 10 days after death. Then the interior of the body was cleansed, and the incision was sewed. Next, the brain was drawn out through the nostrils by a long needle. The internal organs were removed through an incision on the side, while the liver, lungs, intestines, and the stomach were each placed in a jar called ‘Canopic’. The ideal mummification process took 80 days. This is a transcript from the video series The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World. Mummified the same way since the costs differed. Based on his writings, not all people were He wasĪ Greek historian who adored Egypt and wrote the 1000-year-old processes he How exactly did the process go? The Greek Story of the Egyptian ProcessĮgyptian mummification process is the historical writings of Herodotus. ![]() The West was where the sun would set and the supposed home of the dead. When an Egyptian died, the dead body was transferred to the embalmers on the west bank of Nile. The Egyptian word for a mummy was sah, meaning ‘nobility’ or ‘dignity’. Bitumen is a black tarry substance that was mistakenly believed to have been used for mummification. The word ‘mummy’ is derived from the Arabic word mümiya, meaning ‘bitumen’ or ‘something made of bitumen’. Thus, mummifying became the way to deal with death. ![]() The idea came to ancient Egyptians when they saw dead bodies naturally preserved in hot sand. In ancient Egypt, mummies were preserved bodies for the return of the soul so that the dead could have a smooth afterlife experience. Some even had to start the afterlife without their inner organs, which was not the most pleasant situation, but inevitable! The mummification process in ancient Egypt depended on the person’s wealth but was performed anyway due to its significance in the afterlife. It was a lengthy and costly process, which was not equally performed for everyone. By Robert Garland P.h.D., Colgate University The mummification process in ancient Egypt was extremely important as it could help the dead have a nice life in the underworld.
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