Damien Moreno 2 History March 1, 2012 I Search/Egypt Essay

Mummification
Have you ever wondered how Egypt starting mummifying their people? Or have you ever thought their souls really go on to live for eternal life? I wonder how the Egyptian full operation went? And why didnt they mummify everybody in Egypt for the same price? And did the Egyptians ever mummify a peasant or even many peasants? Mummification is one of most important religious beliefs in the ancient Egyptian times. Mummification is when a pharaoh gets put through this process to go on and live into the eternal life and gets to have all of these goods like wealthy furniture and antiques. The Egyptians also had a full operation that took roughly a long time. The mummification operation also took place step by step. They would first take out all of the organs such as the kidneys, intestines, stomach, the liver, the heart, and even the brain, then; when all of the organs are put away they would place the heart back into the human body. Next they would wash the body and place oil all over the skin. Then they let the body sit and rot for 40 days. After 40 days they would cover the body in sand and let it sit for a total of 70 days. At last they would wrap the body in bandages, and place him/her in a coffin or many coffins. Egyptians didnt just mummify pharaohs or rulers, they also mummified commoners and pets. The Egyptians only mummified the commoners who can afford at least a couple of stages of the process involved in mummification. The people who could afford the mummification and decided to be mummified didnt get these big caskets, fancy furniture, or even antiques buried with them. They were just wrapped and dug into a little ditch; which is nothing fancier then any of todays burial sites. In fact people are still finding commoners buried parts and whole bodies today. Egyptians very much cared about their pets. Egyptians felt like a pet was a symbol of something good. Since they thought pets were very important, so they started to mummify them too. One of the most common pets mummified was the rabbit. The rabbit was probably one of the easiest pets to mummify because of its shape. Also like

unlike human mummification the animals process took way less time because of the fewer intestines they have to take out. The rabbit wasnt slow but when it came to larger living obstacles bigger than it self they would run so much that I am pretty sure they got tired. But to humans the rabbit wasnt just a fast animal it was very important, because of its sign that it told them, and thats why I wish I lived in ancient Egypt because today. I felt like learning more on the ancient Egyptians mummification because it is very interesting. I also feel like I really came far in the research and really dug into it. I also have a nerve telling the whole time that I will succeeded in research out of all of the categories in the Isearch. Unlike other people I felt like I really got the main point and told the process and purpose of mummification really good. The one thing that really surprised me in this report besides my progress was animal mummification. Animal mummification surprised me because I didnt think that humans would care and believe so much in an animal to mummify them and let them live for eternity. The only struggle that I can really see was that I couldnt find out the prices of mummification. I had a feeling it would be really expensive or cheaper than you think. Not finding the prices of the mummification almost made me actually give up on this project but the prices wouldnt stop me.

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