Mummification
The body is taken to a tent that is known as the place of purification. In the tent embalmers clean the body with palm wine and wash it from head to toe with water from the Nile.
What is the washing process?
A farmer of low social class.
What is a peasant?
A king whose tomb remained fully intact for thousand of years and died at 19.
Who was King Tut?
A monumental structure built by King Khufu and was made of more than 2 million stone blocks
What is the Great Pyramid?
A person who writes and takes note and records important infromation.
What was a scribe?
They are the first to be removed from the body because they are the first part to decompose. They take their parts out via a large cut in the left side of the body made by one of the embalmers.
What is the organ removal process?
A dead human or animal who was embalmed and wrapped in linen.
What is a mummy?
A woman pharaoh, who was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
Who was Cleopatra?
A small temple made of alabaster and decorated with many types of animals and gods.
What is the White Chapel?
A craftsman. A person who worked in metalwork, pottery, etc.
What was an artisan?
The body is wrapped from head to toe with strips of linen and are given a papyrus scroll with spells from the Book of Dead which is put in their hands to protect it with its travels to the underworld.
What is the embalming process?
Someone who writes.
What is a scribe?
A harsh ruler who built the Great Pyramid.
Who was King Khufu?
What is the Abu Simbel?
A person who advised the pharaoh and oversaw all religious ceremonies.
What were priests?
While the body is being wrapped the mummy is coated in a liquid glue with each layer of linen to help keep the glue and bandages together.
What is the clothing and tomb process?
A large waterfall.
What is a cataract?
A famous pharaoh who reigned for more than 60 years and had over 100 wives and 100 children.
Who was King Ramses II?
A temple built into a cliff above the Nile River with 2 thin tall obelisks at the entrance and 200 sphinx statues too.
What is the temple at Dayr al-Bahri?
A person who assists the pharaoh in his or her role as the supreme ruler.
What were Government Officials?
After the mummy is coated it is wrapped with a cloth with the god Osiris pictured on it and is wrapped in a large cloth that covers the entire mummy. A painted wooden board is placed over it and the mummy is lowered into its first coffin of two.
What is the resin coating process?
What the land of a certain area is and looks like.
What is topography?
A strong ruler who designed the White Chapel.
Who was King Senusret I?
A tomb found completely intact but small and rushed and not depicting what an actual tomb would look like.
What is King Tut's Tomb?
The supreme ruler of ancient Egypt and the highest level on the social pyramid.
What was the pharaoh?