what animals in Egypt were mummified when they died?
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Many types of animals were mummified, some because they were beloved pets and others were offerings to gods or goddesses.  Animals mummified as pets included cats, falcons, monkeys, hawks, fish, shrews, dogs and gazelles (one was found with Queen Isetemkheb).  Ibises were mummified in honor of Thoth, and cats in honor of Bast/Bastet.  Bulls and crocodiles were sometimes sacrificed and mummified, as well.\nSometimes animals such as cows and birds were mummified and buried with human mummies in order to provide them with food in their next life.\n\nHope this was helpful :-)\n\nI included some sources with neat pictures of animal mummies...but they are a bit gross.
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I don't think anyone has actually figured out how the mummification process works.  They know how they did it more or less but not the preservative formula or how to duplicate it.  You can get mummified maybe but you might not last as long as the Pharaohs, or you'd have to settle for modern conventions.  What about trying fossilization?  Just have someone bury you in volcanic ash or something.
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Well it was in Egypt that the cat was first domesticated. Animals of all kinds were respected by Egyptians. But "cats where worshipped and respected for two reasons: firstly, because the goddess Bast was worshipped in the form of a cat, and secondly, because the cat was seen as an important part of Egyptian life" They were seen as helpful companions; they trained their cats to go out hunting with them instead of dogs!!
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&*&*&\nI HOPE THIS HELPS YOU.  GOOD LUCK!!!\n\n\nhttp://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/animalgods.htm\n\nAnimals and the Gods of Ancient Egypt\nby Caroline Seawright\n\nEgyptian towns usually had their own local sacred animal. It was thought that some gods and goddesses represented themselves on earth in the form of a single representative of a specific species, and honoring that species of animal would please the god or goddess associated with the animal. The animal believed to be the incarnation of the god or goddess lived a pampered life in and near the temples and religious centers.\n\nBaboon y`n baboon determinative y`n - The dog-headed baboon was one of the manifestations of both Thoth, god of writing, and Khonsu, the youthful moon god. Both deities were related to the moon. Hapy, the son of Horus who guarded the canopic jars that held the lungs, had the head of a baboon. There was also a baboon god in the Early Dynastic period named Hedjwer, 'The Great White One', who became closely linked with Thoth. Sometimes Thoth was shown in baboon form, perched on top of the scales of judgement in the underworld.\n\nBast, Egyptian Cat Goddess Cat myywcat determinative myw - Many deities were depicted as cats, both domestic or wild, and so they were seen as benevolent, sacred animals. Bast, originally a desert cat, was later depicted as a domestic cat. Ra was shown as 'The Great Cat of Heliopolis' who defeated Apep in 'The Book of the Dead'.\n\nCattle mnnmnntcattle determinative mnmnt - Hathor, Isis, Nut and Bat were three goddesses who were often depicted as cows, with the horns of cows or with the ears of cows. Because of this, and because of the relationship of the pharaoh as a living god, the cow came to symbolize the mother of the pharaoh. The cow was also a solar icon, where Nut carried the sun across the sky on her back, when she was in cow form. The cow was linked to female fertility and to the mother of the pharaoh. Osiris was related to the bull - the Apis bull, after death, became Osiris-Apis. While it was still alive, the Apis bull was seen as the Ba of Ptah, mummified god of creation. The Mnevis bull was regarded as the Ba of Ra-Atum. The bull, therefor, was linked to masculinity and the pharaoh.\n\nWadjet in her Human-headed Cobra Form Cobra djtcobra in a basket determinative djt - The cobra was sacred to Wadjet, the cobra goddess of Buto, who represented Lower Egypt and kingship. The cobra goddess Renenet was a fertility goddess who was sometimes depicted as nursing children and as protector of pharaoh. Another cobra goddess was Meretseger, 'she who loves silence', who could punish criminals with blindness or her venom.\n\nCrocodile mshcrocodile determinative msh - Ammut, the demoness at the judgement hall, had the head of a crocodile along with other fearful creatures, and was known as 'the devourer of the dead' who punished evildoers by eating their hearts. The god of the Athribis region, the solar god Horus Khenty-Khenty, was sometimes shown as a crocodile. But the crocodile was also sacred to Sobek, who was portrayed as a human with the head of a crocodile, or as the crocodile itself. The temples of Sobek usually had sacred lakes where crocodiles were fed and cared for. The hippo goddess of childbirth, Taweret, was thought to have the back and tail of a crocodile, or was shown with a crocodile perched on her back.\n\nFalcon / Hawk bykfalcon with a flagellum determinative byk - The sacred bird of the falcon-headed solar god Horus, it was also regarded as his Ba. The falcon was a bird that had protective powers, and was frequently linked with royalty, where it was depicted as hovering over the head of the pharaoh, with outstretched wings. The falcon was also sacred to Montu, god of war, and Sokar, god of the Memphite necropolis. The bird of prey was sometimes associated with Hathor, 'The House of Horus'. The son of Horus, Qebehsenuef who guarded the canopic jar of t
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Well, I guess what the shape the remains were in when you find them.  If it was just a skeleton lying on the ground then more than likely it was not the victem of a predator.  Most predators would have torn it up.  A snake would swallow it and reguritate the bones and hair, but the skeleton would not come out complete.\n\nNow if it were in a compacted form of hair and bones then a snake is a possible idea.  Another is an owl.  Owls can eat their prey whole and later reguritate the undigestables.  There are science kits where you can dissect these "owl pellets".  Here is some info:\n\nhttp://www.scienceman.com/pgs/archive21_owlpellet.html\n\nhttp://www.wbu.com/chipperwoods/photos/owls.htm
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it depend on the condition of the corpse.\n\nIf you just leave it there, less than 2 months.\n\nSome mummies may stay up to 2000 years.
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Amen\n "The Hidden One," a primordial creation-deity\n \nAnubis\n Egyptian god of the dead\n \nBast \n Egyptian cat goddess\n \nBes \n Egyptian dwarf god believed to guard against evil spirits and misfortune\n \nChons \n Egyptian moon god\n \nDua \n Protector of the stomach of the deceased\n \nGeb \n God of the Earth\n \nHathor \n Egyptian cow goddess\n \nIsis \n Egyptian mother goddess\n \nKa \n Egyptian name for the vital force of life\n \nMaat \n Egyptian goddess of truth and justice\n \nMin \n Egyptian fertility god\n \nMut \n Wife of Amen, mother of Khons\n \nNephthys  Egyptian goddess of the dead\n \nNut \n Egyptian goddess of the sky and of the heavens\n \nOsiris \n Egyptian god of the underworld and of vegetation\n \nQetesh \n Goddess of love and beauty\n \nRe \n Egyptian sun god\n \nSelket \n Scorpion goddess, helper of women in childbirth\n \nSet \n Egyptian god of chaos\n \nShu \n Egyptian god of the air\n \nSobek \n Egyptian crocodile god\n \nTaweret \n Hippopotamus goddess and protective deity of childbirth\n \nThoth \n Egyptian moon god\n \nWepwawet \n God of war and of the funerary cult\n\nAmen's name means "The Hidden One." Amen was the patron deity of the city of Thebes from earliest times, and was viewed (along with his consort Amenet) as a primordial creation-deity by the priests of Hermopolis. His sacred animals were the goose and the ram. \n\nUp to the Middle Kingdom Amen was merely a local god in Thebes; but when the Thebans had established their sovereignty in Egypt, Amen became a prominent deity, and by Dynasty XVIII was termed the King of the Gods. His famous temple, Karnak, is the largest religious structure ever built by man. According to Budge, Amen by Dynasty XIX-XX was thought of as "an invisible creative power which was the source of all life in heaven, and on the earth, and in the great deep, and in the Underworld, and which made itself manifest under the form of Ra." Additionally, Amen appears to have been the protector of any pious devotee in need. \n\nAmen was self-created, according to later traditions; according to the older Theban traditions, Amen was created by Thoth as one of the eight primordial deities of creation (Amen, Amenet, Heq, Heqet, Nun, Naunet, Kau, Kauket). \n\nDuring the New Kingdom, Amen's consort was Mut, "Mother," who seems to have been the Egyptian equivalent of the "Great Mother" archetype. The two thus formed a pair reminiscent of the God and Goddess of other traditions such as Wicca. Their child was the moon god Khons.\n\nAnubis\n(Anpu) \n\nEgyptian god of the dead, represented as a black jackal or dog, or as a man with the head of a dog or jackal. His parents were usually given as Re in combination with either Nephthys or Isis. After the early period of the Old Kingdom, he was superseded by Osiris as god of the dead, being relegated to a supporting role as a god of the funeral cult and of the care of the dead. The black colour represented the colour of human corpses after they had undergone the embalming process. In the Book of the Dead, he was depicted as presiding over the weighing of the heart of the deceased in the Hall of the Two Truths. In his role as psychopomp he was referred to as the "conductor of souls". The Greeks later identified him with their god Hermes, resulting in the composite deity Hermanubis. His principal sanctuary was at the necropolis in Memphis and in other cities. Anubis was also known as Khenty- Imentiu - "chief of the westerners" - a reference to the Egyptian belief that the realm of the dead lay to the west in association with the setting sun, and to their custom of building cemeteries on the west bank of the Nile. \n\nBast\n(Bastet, Ubasti) \n\nEgyptian cat goddess. A goddess of the home and of the domestic cat, although she sometimes took on the war-like aspect of a lioness. Daughter of the sun god Re, although sometimes regarded as the daughter of Amun. Wife
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I searched this article and found a bit of information...\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_of_the_Ancient_Egyptians\n\n...hope it helps...
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Giraffe and the camel
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When the Sapa Inca died, the intestines were removed. The body was stuffed with herbs. The body was dried in the sun. The emperor's eye sockets were covered by gold disks, he was dressed in rich garments and jewelry, and he was placed on a gold throne. The emperor's body was tended as if it were still alive. Each day he was offered food and drink. His clothes were kept clean. When the queen died, she was also mummified and placed beside him. At festival time, they were paraded through the streets of Cuzco.
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Excellent question. I have often thought about this before. They say that Egyptians never came to the new world but I don't buy it. Pyramids, heiroglyphs, burials, tombs And they way they looked. Too much to be coincidence. National geographic has a special called the curse of the cocaine mummies. They found the coca plant in Egyptian mummies which proves that they had trade.
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A precise answer is difficult to give because many nations do not keep accurate records of cause of death, and some deaths may go misdiagnosed or undiscovered.\n\nBy far, the most dangerous animal in Africa is the mosquito, with malaria killing around one million people a year, but I suspect that is not the answer you are looking for (although it's the correct one).\n\nTo determine the most dangerous vertebrate wildlife animal, the results from Zimbabwe for 2005 can be illuminating.\n\nCrocodiles were the top man killer, with 13 deaths attributed to the big reptiles.\n\nElephants were close behind, with 12 people killed, mostly trying to protect their crops from the hungry herbivores.\n\nBuffalo (like the Cape Buffalo, not the Bison of North America) trampled and killed one person, and one person was also killed by hippopotamus.\n\nLions took as many as 17 cattle, but there were no fatal attacks on humans.\n\nNote that this does not include domestic animals.  In the United States alone, horses and dogs account for hundreds of deaths a year, and cattle, pigs and other farm animals also cause numerous injuries and death.
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Although the ancient egyptions had a calendar that was divided into 12 months of 30 days, the current 12 month calendar has been in place since Feb 24, 1582.\n\nSee the page below.
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Moses didn't take any animals on the Ark :P
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No the sphinx was definately a mystical creature. The Egyptians worshipped it and the Greeks feared it \nHere is the Greek legend The symbol wasn't limited to Egypt, but was also found in ancient Phoenician, Syrian, and Greek societies. In Greek legend, the Sphinx devoured all travelers who could not answer the riddle it posed: "What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?" The hero Oedipus gave the answer, "Man," causing the Sphinx's death. If any many could not answer this question while passing by the sphinx they would be eaten a live. \n\nWow the Greeks sure believed in the half man half animal thing didn't they. HEre is more information for you it is quite an interesting website. Check it out :)
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SETI the first was an Egyptian pharaoh
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Today Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan, but in ancient times it was an independent kingdom.\n\nNubian Wedding near Aswan, Egypt\nIts people spoke at least two varieties of the Nubian language group, a Nilo-Saharan subfamily which includes Nobiin, Kenuzi-Dongola, Midob and several related varieties in the northern part of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. A variety (Birgid) was spoken (at least until 1970) north of Nyala in Darfur but is now extinct. Old Nubian was used in mostly religious texts dating from the 8th and 9th centuries AD. It is considered ancestral to modern day Nobiin.\n\nPre-history\nThe earliest cultures of Nubia left no writings and are unreported in the annals of other nations. The first noticeable cultures in Nubia include first the Badarian culture, then the Amratian and finally the Gerzean. From the Gerzean the first native culture developed known as the A-Group, which began roughly at the same time as the First dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC. It consisted of semi-nomadic groups who subsided by herding sheep, goats, and some cattle. It is known from its distinctive burial rituals and pottery. Prehistoric tools discovered in Nubia date to circa 65,000 BC, found along the Nile Valley.\nThis culture began to decline in the early-28th century BC. The succeeding culture is known as B-Group. Previously, the B-Group people were thought to have invaded from elsewhere. Today most historians believe that B-Group was merely A-Group but far poorer. The causes of this is uncertain, but it was perhaps caused by Egyptian invasions and pillaging that began at this time.\nAs trade between Egypt and Nubia increased so did wealth and stability. By the Egyptian 6th dynasty, Nubia was divided into a series of small kingdoms. There is debate over whether these C-Group peoples, who flourished from c. 2240 BC to c. 2150 BC, were another internal evolution or invaders. There are definite similarities between the pottery of A-Group and C-Group, so it may be a return of the ousted Group-As, or an internal revival of lost arts. At this time, the Sahara Desert was becoming too arid to support human beings, and it is possible that there was a sudden influx of Saharan nomads. C-Group pottery is characterized by all-over incised geometric lines with white infill and impressed imitations of basketry.\nA contemporaneous but distinct culture from the C-Group was the Pan Grave culture, so called because of their shallow graves. The Pan Graves are associated with the East bank of the Nile, but the Pan Graves and C-Group definitely interacted. Their pottery is characterized by incised lines of a more limited character than those of the C-Group, generally having interspersed undecorated spaces within the geometric scheme.\nFrom the C-Group culture, the first kingdom to unify much of the region arose, the Kingdom of Kerma, named for its presumed capital at Kerma. When Egyptian power revived under the New Kingdom they began to expand southwards. By the end of the reign of Thutmose I in 1520 BC, all of northern Nubia had been annexed.