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Egyptians dedicated their lives to their death. Egyptians
believed that there was an afterlife, a life after they die that
issupposed to be a continuation of their life on Earth. Pharaohs
spent most of their lives preparing for their death.Apharaoh's tomb
or pyramid's construction usually began as soon as they became
pharaoh. Instead of a pyramid,pharaohs of the New Kingdom had tombs
cut deep in the rock of the Valley of the Kings, in Thebes. When a
pharaohdied he was mummified and placed in his sarcophagus, with
his goods,jewelry and treasurea,for the deceased to usein the
afterlife.
First, his body is taken to the tent known as 'ibu' or the
'place of purification'. Theretheembalmers wash his body with
good-smelling palm wine and rinse it with water fromthe Nile.One of
the embalmer's men makes a cut in the left side of the body
andremoves many of the internal organs. It is important to remove
these because they arethe first part of the body todecompose.The
liver, lungs, stomach and intestines arewashed and packed innatron
which will dry them out. The heart is not taken out of thebody
because it is the centre of intelligence and feeling and the man
will need it intheafterlife.A long hook is used to smash the brain
and pull it out through thenose. The body is now covered and
stuffed with natron which will dry it out. All of thefluids, and
rags from the embalming process will be saved and buried along with
thebody. After forty days the body is washed again with water from
the Nile. Then it iscovered with oils to help the skin stay
elastic. Thedehydrated internal organs arewrapped inlinen and
returned to the body. The body is stuffed with dry materials
such
as sawdust, leaves and linen so that it looks lifelike. Finally
the body is covered againwith good-smelling oils. It is now ready
to be wrapped in linen. n the past, when theinternal organs were
removed from a body they were placed in hollowcanopic jars.Overmany
years the embalming practices changed and embalmers began returning
internalorgans to bodies after the organs had been dried in natron.
However, solid wood orstone canopic jars were still buried with the
mummy to symbolically protect the internalorgans.Wrapping the mummy
First the head and neck are wrapped with strips of finelinen. Then
the fingers and the toes are individually wrapped. the arms and
legs arewrapped separately. Between the layers of wrapping, the
embalmers placeamulets toprotect the body in its journey through
the underworld.
.The arms and legs are tied together. A papyrus scroll with
spells from the Book of the Dead is placed between the
wrapped hands.More linen strips are wrapped around the body. At
every layer, the bandages are painted with
liquidresin that helps to glue the bandages together. A cloth is
wrapped around the body and a picture of the god
Osiris is painted on its surface. finally, a large cloth is
wrapped around the entire mummy. It is attached with strips of
linen that run from the top to the bottom of the mummy, and
around its middle.A board of painted wood is placed on
top of the mummy before the mummy is lowered into its coffin.
The first coffin is then put inside a second coffin.
The Egyptian pyramidsare ancientpyramid-shapedmasonry structures
located inEgypt.There are
138pyramidsdiscovered in Egypt as of 2008.[1][2]
Most were built as tombs for the
country'sPharaohsand their consorts during theOldandMiddle
Kingdomperiods.[3][4][5]
The earliest
known Egyptian pyramids are found atSaqqara,northwest
ofMemphis.The earliest among these is
thePyramid of Djoser(constructed 2630 BCE
2611 BCE) which was built during thethird dynasty.Thispyramid
and its surrounding complex were designed by the architect
Imhotep,and are generally
considered to be the world's oldest monumental structures
constructed ofdressed masonry.[6]
The
estimate of the number of workers to build the pyramids range
from a few thousand, twenty thousand,
and up to 100,000.[7][8][not in citation given]
The most famous Egyptian pyramids are those found atGiza,on
the
outskirts ofCairo.Several of the Giza pyramids are counted among
the largest structures ever
built.[9]
ThePyramid of Khufuat Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It
is the only one of theSeven
Wonders of the Ancient Worldstill in existence
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