everything on egyptian mummies?
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They remove all organs except the heart. The heart is mummified and then put back into the mummy.
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These links will provide more information about Egypt:  \nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/15924/\nhttp://www.egyptheart.org/\nhttp://neferchichi.com/
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You really need to post this in the Archeology forum.  It's sarcophagus, BTW.
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http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~ancient/chron.htm\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_table_goddesses_egypt.htm\nhttp://chahttp://hypermart.net/fullsize/egyptfs.gif\nhttp://www.teacheroz.com/egypt.htm\nhttp://www.rom.on.ca/egypt/case/about/gods.html
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Some of the better secondary sources include:\n\nRitner, Robert  "The Mechanics of Egyptian Magical Practice" SAOC No. 54.  Chicago:  Oriental Institute University of Chicago\n\nHornung, Erik (translated by Lorton, D.) "The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife"\n\nShafer, Byron "Religion in Ancient Egypt:  Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice" with chapters by John Baines, Leonard Lesko, and David Silverman\n\nThese 3 are a good beginning and should provide you with plenty of additional bibliography.
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A mummy is the body of a person (or an animal) that has been preserved after death. Normally when we die, bacteria and other germs eat away at the soft tissues (such as skin and muscles) leaving only the bones behind. Since bacteria need water in order to grow, mummification usually happens if the body dries out quickly after death. The body may then be so well preserved that we can even tell how the dead person may have looked in life.\n\nMummies are made naturally or by embalming, which is any process that people use to help preserve a dead body. Mummies can be dried out by extreme cold, by the sun, by smoke, or using chemicals such as natron. Some bodies become mummies because there were favorable natural conditions when they died. Others were preserved and buried with great care.\n\nThe ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a person's body after death was essential to ensure a safe passage to the afterlife.
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I would want to go back to hmm lemme see Egyptian Period! To know the secrets of building pyramids and stuff :-)Really fascinating!!!
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Basically, all you need to create a mummy is a dry environment with a fairly stable temperature - either very hot or very cold.\n\nMummies occur all around the world in various time periods - either natural mummies or mummies created throught the deliberate intervention of humans.\n\nThe first mummies in Egypt were natural mummies - people who were simply buried in simple graves in the desert sand, which dried out their flesh and organs and resulted in their excellent preservation.\nIt seems fairly likely that one way or another, the Egyptians noticed this natural mummification.\n\nAs funerary practices grew more complex and people started ot be placed in coffins or in rooms away from the natural drying properties of the desert, it seems that the Egyptians began experimenting in ways to artificially preserve the body before burial.\n\nThe typical practice was removal of the major internal organs through a slit in the side of the body cavity. The heart was left in place as it was considered the seat of intelligence. On occasion the brain was removed - occasionally it was not. The body was then covered in natron - a naturally occuring substance similar to a combination of table salt and baking soda. The ancient sources say a "solution" or "bath" of natron, leading some to suspect that this was actually water with natron dissolved in it - but this seems unlikely.\n\nAfter the body had dried for sufficient time (the time depending on the status of the person in question and what they could afford) the body was frequenly padded to make up for the lost water weight, stuffed with fragrant materials such as cedar sawdust, frankincense, etc. and wrapped in linen. On occasion, resins were also poured over the body.\n\nIronically, some of the more elaborate treatments caused the body to be even more poorly preserved than if they had just left it alone. However, the preservation of the body or an image or in dire circumstances just the name of the deceased was extremely important for the person to survive in the afterlife as a place for the soul to reside.\n\nBob Brier, an American Egyptologist, is probably the most famous name associated with modern studies of mummification. A google search for his name should turn up some of his recent works.
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This is just a rumour because their followers destroyed everything remembering her and her husband Akhenaton. All the royal mummies have been protected\nby priests  against thiefs except these two.
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http://www.rom.on.ca/egypt/hiero/hiero.html\n\nGive it a try!  Have fun.
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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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******************\nDONT TRY THIS AT HOME :D\n******************\nAn important man has died and his body needs to be prepared for burial. The process of mummification has two stages. First, the embalming of the body. Then, the wrapping and burial of the body. \n\nFirst, his body is taken to the tent known as 'ibu' or the 'place of purification'. There the embalmers wash his body with good-smelling palm wine and rinse it with water from the Nile.\n\nOne of the embalmer's men makes a cut in the left side of the body and removes many of the internal organs. It is important to remove these because they are the first part of the body to decompose.\n\nThe liver, lungs, stomach and intestines are washed and packed in natron which will dry them out. The heart is not taken out of the body because it is the centre of intelligence and feeling and the man will need it in the afterlife.\n\nA long hook is used to smash the brain and pull it out through the nose.\n\nThe body is now covered and stuffed with natron which will dry it out. All of the fluids, and rags from the embalming process will be saved and buried along with the body.\n\nAfter forty days the body is washed again with water from the Nile. Then it is covered with oils to help the skin stay elastic.\n\nThe dehydrated internal organs are wrapped in linen and returned to the body. The body is stuffed with dry materials such as sawdust, leaves and linen so that it looks lifelike. \n\nFinally the body is covered again with good-smelling oils. It is now ready to be wrapped in linen.\n\nn the past, when the internal organs were removed from a body they were placed in hollow canopic jars.\n\nOver many years the embalming practices changed and embalmers began returning internal organs to bodies after the organs had been dried in natron. However, solid wood or stone canopic jars were still buried with the mummy to symbolically protect the internal organs. \n\nImsety the human-headed god looks after the liver. Hapy the baboon-headed god looks after the lungs. Duamutef the jackal-headed god looks after the stomach. Qebehsenuef the falcon-headed god looks after the intestines.\n\nThe body has been cleaned, dried and rubbed with good-smelling oils. Now it is ready to be wrapped in linen.\n\n***************\nWrapping the mummy\n***************\n\nFirst the head and neck are wrapped with strips of fine linen. Then the fingers and the toes are individually wrapped. \n\nThe arms and legs are wrapped separately. Between the layers of wrapping, the embalmers place amulets to protect the body in its journey through the underworld.\n\nA priest reads spells out loud while the mummy is being wrapped. These spells will help ward off evil spirits and help the deceased make the journey to the afterlife. \n\nThe arms and legs are tied together. A papyrus scroll with spells from the Book of the Dead is placed between the wrapped hands.\n\nMore linen strips are wrapped around the body. At every layer, the bandages are painted with liquid resin that helps to glue the bandages together. \n\nA cloth is wrapped around the body and a picture of the god Osiris is painted on its surface. \n\nFinally, 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.\n\nA 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. \n\nThe funeral is held for the deceased and his family mourns his death. \n\nA ritual called the 'Opening of the Mouth' is performed, allowing the deceased to eat and drink again.\n\nFinally, the body and its coffins are placed inside a large stone sarcophagus in the tomb. Furniture, clothing, valuable objects, food and drink are arranged in the tomb for the deceased.\n\nNow his body is ready for its journey through the underworld. There his heart will be judged by his good deeds
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... Something about triangles, right?\n\nThey had an empire, I think...  or was it just a kingdom?  Or do they elect a president... Mubarak?  Does that sound familiar?  Were they muslims or pagans???  There was this guy Tut and he had a mummy...  Steve Martin says he was born in Arizona but he got a home in Babylonia and was a boy king and had more money than Midas...  I'm not sure if all of that is correct.  Midas had a lot of money.  There's also something... maybe... about a huge dam and reservior on the Nile... or up the Nile... something like that.  Egypt fought Israel after the God of Israel dumped a bunch of plagues on them, but that was after Egypt apparently enslaved a bunch of jews to build some fancy cemetaries.  Maybe the jews are still pissed off about that.  There was Cleopatra, who was aparently the first Ms. Universe and apparently she dug rich Italian guys.  Then there are those hieroglyphics... it would be more fun to make pictures of words than write phonetically, but I guess it makes it easier to learn the language if it's phonetic.  SO they made the Rosetta stone so they could talk to other people.  REM says "Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."  MAybe they hired an exterminator because that was past-tense...  They had some big library on the coast...  but it wasn't a public library?  But then somebody screwed it all up.  They failed to correct Alexander's delusion that he was a god.  I guess you'll do anything to get creepy thugs like that off your back though and he DID march way off to India next, so I guess it worked for a while.\n\nBasically, they did a bunch of stuff.  Built a few wonders of the world.  You know, not much.
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I don't think so.  Look into Egyptian mythology and see what the allure was to them.  I don't even think that the Egyptians thought that.
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You mean the young Pharaoh of Egypt Tutankhamen? Here is some info on him: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557167/Tutankhamun.html
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The Mummys from actint Egypt are afraid of cats because they have been enemies for thousands of years. Everyone knows a cats inclination to chasing things, just take a piece of yarn and swing it in front of your cat, he will go for it, anyway Mummies naturally have pieces of cloth hanging loose, and in their hayday, swarms of cats would overwhelm a Mummy who strayed from the herd. Many a mummy lived a short afterlife after being unwrapped by a pack of street cats, so much so that actint Mummys first developed aluminum foil to act as a distraction in case of a cat attack.\n\nSo to answer your question, Mummys are dead, and have never walked after that, the fear of cats is a made up thing, in fact hundreds of thousands of cats were mummified by ancient egyptians, as they were revered by them.
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