ANCIENT MUMMIES
This main African country that practiced mummification.
Bonus Points: This country has the most pyramids and also practiced mummification.
What is Egypt?
Bonus Points: What is Sudan?
This is why the Egyptians used natron (salt) in the embalming process.
What is to prevent decay of the body?
This area is where most mummified pharaohs were buried.
What is the Valley of Kings?
These figures were depicted on the lids of organ jars
What are gods?
This method was sometimes used to make paint known as mummy brown...using real mummies!
What is grinding?
The mummy was soaked in these two items during the embalming period
The skin of this animal was worn by a priest while performing the burial rites.
What is a leopard or panther skin?
These features were subject to the burial sites of older mummies
What are sand pits?
The area west of the Nile was considered this
What is the Land of the Dead?
This is why the heart was not removed in the removal of the other organs.
What is the Egyptians perceived it as the center of consciousness and soul?
People in England would perform this act to "cure" all illnesses, from headaches to internal bleeding.
What is "medicinal" cannibalism?
The brain was removed in this way
What is latched onto the brain and pulled it out through the nose with a long hook?
This was the 4th part of the process in mummification to preserve it.
What is coating the body in scents and resin?
This was used as a face covering on mummies to preserve their identities. In later years, a portrait of the mummy was painted on this.
What is a wooden plank?
This book, in Herodotus' Histories, discusses the process of mummifying a body
What is Book II
This area of the body consists of the liver, stomach, intestines, and lungs, which are the organs found in the torso, or the khat to the Egyptians.
What is the viscera?