are mummies real in egypt?
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The only monster that's actually real…it's the mummy! People have long been fascinated by mummies, the preserved bodies from ancient Egypt. They certainly have one large advantage over most other monsters: They're real!
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Nubia and Egypt Nubia and Ancient Egypt had periods of both peace and war. It is believed, based on rock art, that Nubian rulers and early Egyptian pharaohs used similar royal symbols. There was often peaceful cultural exchange and cooperation, and marriages between the two did occur.
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Egypt is known for the 4160 miles long Nile river, Egyptian cotton, chaotic bazaars, scuba diving, and beach resort towns such as Sharm-El-Sheikh. Of course, Egypt is famous for its ancient history museums, the Pyramids of Giza, temple complexes, mummies and the Great Sphinx.
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Speculation swirls anew that within Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu there lies a hidden tomb, possibly holding the pharaoh himself, sealed there for thousands of years. The discovery of so-called thermal anomalies by a team scanning the pyramid suggests an as-yet-unidentified open space that could be evidence of a tomb.
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In the conclusion, the Mayan pyramids were combined temples and tombs, while the Egyptian pyramids were tombs with temples attached. Both had square bases and four sides, but they look very different. The true Egyptian pyramids are much larger than the Mayan pyramids, and have smooth sides and pointed tips.
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There have never been any mummies found in any Egyptian pyramids. Neither are there any ancient Egyptian texts that state why the ancient Egyptians conceived and built their pyramids. ... “The kings designed these pyramids for their sepulchres, yet it happened that their remains were not here deposited.”
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Today, we know of no wild lions in Egypt. ... It is likely that the connection between the king and the lion grew from the tribal chiefs hunting these animals during the Predynastic period, just as they did Hippopotamus and Crocodiles, which no longer inhabit Egyptian waters above Lake Nasser.
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A mummy is the body of a person (or an animal) that has been preserved after death. Who were the mummies? They were any Egyptian who could afford to pay for the expensive process of preserving their bodies for the afterlife. ... They believed that they had to preserve their bodies so they could use them in the afterlife.
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Elephants had gone extinct in Egypt by about 2600 B.C. or so, plus or minus a few centuries. So for a very long time there was no native elephants for Egyptians to use. It is theoretically possible that the Pharaohs might have imported some for military purposes, but I'm not really seeing any sign of this.
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THE tomb of Queen Cleopatra may finally have been found 2,000 years after she committed suicide by poisonous snake bite. In a new documentary, experts suggest the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh is buried in a mysterious site on the Nile Delta.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, a mummy is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but sometimes organs and muscles as well.
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User Info: Cheth7. Ultimately got back together after they were done doin their Assassin thing. I mean they were buried together (which was a custom for families in ancient Egypt) in Egypt. And there is pictures of them together all around the tomb.
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Anubis was the god of embalming and the dead. Since jackals were often seen in cemeteries, the ancient Egyptians believed that Anubis watched over the dead. ... Thus, Anubis was the god who watched over the process of mummifying people when they died. Priests often wore a mask of Anubis during mummification ceremonies.
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No mummies have been found in the egyption pyramids, because the pyramids were power plants not tombs.
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Pyramids were built for religious purposes. The Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to believe in an afterlife. They believed that a second self called the ka lived within every human being.
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Mummies are also not zombies because they are not relentlessly aggressive and they do not come to be through a biological infection. ... Unlike the modern zombie, mummies are not revived through some scientific process, but rather, through the fulfillment of a curse or eternal mission.
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Mummies have been around for thousands of years. ... DAVID HURST THOMAS: When you look at a mummy in a museum case and actually see the body itself, face to face with a real mummy that's thousands of years old, it does have flesh still on it, but the flesh has changed.