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Mummification - Interesting Facts and Pictures

 

DID YOU KNOW?

  • The canopic jars originally held the organs but after a while they changed the ritual and returned the dried organs to the body but solid jars were still placed with the body.
  • The canopic jars were made from such materials as limestone, calicite or alabaster.
  • The heads on the canopic jars represent the 4 sons of Horus

  • Only during the Middle Kingdom did it become customary to place a mask over the face.



 

An example of a coffin and what a mummy may have looked like inside the coffin.


This is the "Isis knot" which was meant to protect the body through it's journey.

This is the "Plummet" which was meant to keep the body balanced in the after life.

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