MummiesBy Nicholas 4C

Who were Mummies?

Mummified body.

Kept after death.

Can be a person or Animal.

Mummification

They took brain out and left heart.

Specialized workers put organs in canopic jars.

Wrapped in cloth.

Wrapped to conserve body

Funerals

Used to celebrate.

Buried or put in temples.

Curses

Tutankhamen’s curse.

Howard Carter died from curse in 1921.

Biggest curse Tutankhamen’s.

Died from touching him.

Died 6 months later.

Fun facts

Heart was center of smartness.

Had celebrations.

Took out brain from there nostril.

Connections to the past

Wrap to Unwrap.

Tomb to graveyard.

Mummification in 3000bc not big deal now a big deal.

Reference

Giardino Dei Saperi

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