PYRAMIDS AND MUMMYFICATION

• Why did the Ancient Egyptians build pyramids?

• The Egyptians believed that if the pharaoh's body could be mummified after death the pharaoh would live forever.

The tombs were designed to protect the buried Pharaoh's body and his

belongings.

• Pyramids werebuilt stones weigh2 tonnes.Alsothese stones can be found for manymiles away.Evenhow the stoneswere carried hasn’tbeen known yet.

• The 12 scientist who found mummies firstdied because of radioactive materials in themummies.

A view from the most famous and biggestpyramid called Giza

• What there is in some roomsofpyramids hasn’ been knownyet.Most of theresearchers lostor they walk on a vicious circle , but they can’tsee what havein the rooms.

• If we look the earth map on flat ground , we seethat pyramids are in the middle of the world.

• The only wonder that can be protected until that day is pyramids,so wonderswere shoosen again with tha name of new 7 wondersand pyramids got a name called ancient wonder because it is thelast wonder from the ancient times.

• These are new 7 wonders of world ;

• 1-Taj Mahal• 2-Chichen Itza• 3-Christ the Redeemer• 4-Colosseum• 5-Great Wall of China• 6-Machu Picchu• 7-Petra

MUMMYFICATION

• Why did the Egyptians make mummies?• The Egyptians believed in life after death. They believed

that they had to preserve their bodies so they could use them in the afterlife.

• İn ancient egypt, inorder tosave some organs , theywere put in jar with headfigures.

• With an order ; • İn the• First, stomach was kept.• In second jar , lungs was

kept.• In third jar , livers was kept.• In the forth jar, intestinals

was kept.• From left to right their names ; Duamutef,Hapi,Imset,Kebehsenuef

• Death, it was the main theme of egyptins and it wasn’t tell a end.Moreover , in ancient Egypt the end of this life means a begining of an other life ,sothey believed that by death humanundergo metamorphosis and it become a beautiful butterfly.

• It took a very long time, from start to finish, it took about 70 days to mummy a body. The priest would wear the mask of a jackal representing the god Anubis.

• 1. The body was washed and purified.2. Organs were removed. Only the heart remained.3. The body was filled with stuffing.4. The body was dried by covering it with a substance called natron*. This substance absorbed all the moisture from the body.5. After 40 - 50 days the stuffing was removed and replaced with linen or sawdust.6. The body was wrapped in strands of linen and covered in a sheet called a shroud.7. The body was placed in a stone coffin called a sarcophagus.

Bandages which is on the mummy of ramses II wasopened for 15 minutes in june1886.

• after this processthe body had startedto spoiled by fungisand bacterias.Andnow , it is beingprotected by glassvase in BritishMuseum

• According to thlegend the fisrt mummy is Osiris killed by Set.

• According to the story Osiris bandaged himselfand he came back as the god of death , life , afterlife.

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