The Egyptian style is the expression of a brave soul.

Its rigour and severity were never

felt or accentuated by the Egyptians themselves. The Egyptian dared everything, but
without saying”. -Oswald Spengler

When we think of ancient civilizations the first one that normally stands out is Ancient
Egypt by its remarkable antiquity.

Ancient Egypt is a land of mystery and extraordinary, from the Great Pyramid of Giza,
the history of pharaohs and mummies, it has always been a fascinating place for
anthropologists and archaeologists.

Mummies have been a hot topic for tourists, as it is such an unusual burial technique
that it started thousands of years ago when the first Egyptian was mummified by the
natural sand found in the Sahara Desert.

The origins of mummification are difficult to specify because it was practiced by

different civilizations, but it was in Egypt where mummification by artificial means
peaked. 

Mummification is a process in which the human being was embalming at the time of
death, so that his body would not reach natural putrefaction, so the main purpose was
to purify and make the body sacred, it was important in his religion to preserve the
corpse in the most possible real way, and thus be able to join with their "soul" in the far
beyond and continue there with the eternal life.

The earliest mummies from prehistoric times probably were accidental. By chance, dry
sand and the air preserved some bodies buried under the sand. The practice continued
and developed for well over 2,000 years after the quality of the mummification varied,
depending on the price that they have paid for it.

the mummification process took seventy days. Special priests worked as embalmers,
treating and wrapping the body. It can be considered that there were three kinds of
embalming, depending on their price. The simplest was to inject into the intestines
Syria juice, a kind of dried radish and then submerged the body in natron. With an
average price, cedar oil was injected into the abdomen and submerged in natron.
The embalming of rich Egyptians was very costly and consisted of four step. The first
step in the process was the removal of all internal parts that might decay rapidly. The
brain was removed by special tweezers up through the nostrils ten removed the organs
of the abdomen and chest through a cut.

The only organ that never remove is the heart and the other organs were preserved
separately in special boxes.

Then, the embalmers next removed all water from the body by covering the body with
natron that help the body to dry faster.

When the body had complete dried out, the result was a very dried-out but
recognizable human form. To make the mummy seem even more similar. To the areas
that had dried in the body, and were filled with pieces of clothes and other materials
and false eyes were added. Then the wrapping of each mummy, needed hundreds of
yards of linen, the priest carefully wound the long strips of linen around the body.

In order to protect the dead, amulets were placed among the wrappings. The pharaohs
were also buried with shabtis to ensure that their needs were taken care of in the
afterlife. It was believed that the Shabtis would jump out to life and serve the pharaoh
in the afterlife.

At last the priests wrapped the final cloth and secured it with linen strips. The mummy
was complete.

Archaeologists and other specialists said that it is extraordinary how mummification

advanced on time and how it was for religious purposes. so mummification wasn’t just
for the pharaohs, it was also for the religious class, then started to expand it to the
different social classes.

At the present time, the Mummification has helped with has improved the technology in
the tools as well as the use of x-rays that now makes it possible to x-ray mummies
without destroying the elaborate wrappings and experts are learning more about
diseases suffered by the Egyptians and their medical treatment.

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