Mummification Research Paper

Looking at the way Ancient Egyptian civilization lived, worship, and built their kingdom is really amazing. They have made many advances from the Predynastic period to the Eighteenth Dynasty. Just the way they built the tombs and made changed over the periods to make them stand the test of time. Just thinking about something that was built in 1500 B.C. is still standing today. We have buildings built in the 1970’s that are gone due to not being taken care and poor construction. It seems like of thing the Egyptians were good at was taking good care of the structures and preparing a corpse to last as long as possible. The really know how to honor the dead from taking care of the remains and building a great tomb and temple to show how great the King was when they were alive and how …show more content…
We will go over the steps in the process and why it is important to keep the traditions going many years to come. The tools needed were such things as brain hooks, oil jar, funnel, and embalmer’s knife. Some of the materials needed for mummification were things like linen, sawdust, lichen, beeswax, resin, natron, onion, Nile mud, linen pads, and frankincense. Some of the tools are thing we still used today in preparing the remains of a body. (###############) The steps in preparing the corpse is very important first the body is put into a pit in the fetal position with personal items like jewelry and pots made of clay. Sand was thrown into the pit to cover it so that all the water could be absorbed from the body which preserved it. Many years later after learning a few things from the process the pits were eventually enclosed with mud bricks and roofed over. The corpse was wrapped with animal skins, and put into a wooden coffin, pottery, or a basket this process slowed down the decay because the body was not surrounded by hot