The Mummification Process
This natural, salt-like compound was used to dry out the body during mummification.
Natron
This jackal-headed god guided souls to the underworld and invented mummification.
Anubis
These giant, triangular stone structures were built to protect the bodies of early pharaohs.
Pyramids
These are the long white cloths wrapped all around a dead body to turn it into a mummy.
bandages or linen
This famous river provided all the water, food, and life in Egypt.
The Nile River
What organs are stored in Canopic jars?
The stomach, liver, lungs, and intestines?
He is the green-skinned king of the underworld and judge of the dead.
Osiris
This famous creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human guards the pyramids at Giza.
Sphinx
This is what ancient Egyptians called their king or ruler
A pharaoh
This fluid from the Nile River was promised to the dead so they would never be thirsty in paradise.
Water
What organs was considered the center of intelligence and it was left inside the body while the brain was getting removed.
The heart
his god with the head of a falcon was the son of Osiris and protector of the living pharaoh.
Horus?
This hidden desert canyon replaced the pyramids as the primary burial ground for later pharaohs.
Valley of the Kings
This is the heavy, decorated stone box that held a pharaoh's wooden coffins.
sarcophagus
This part of the body was left inside the mummy because it held all of a person's good thoughts and love.
The heart
How long does it take to finish the mummification process?
70 days
This powerful sun god sailed a boat across the sky every day.
Ra
This is the shiny, yellow precious metal used to make King Tut's famous death mask.
Gold
These special jars held the internal body organs that were taken out during mummification.
Canopic jars
This happy feeling is what Egyptians believed good souls would feel forever once they reached paradise.
Joy or happiness
Priests overseeing the mummification process wore masks representing this jackal-headed god of embalming.
Anubis
To enter paradise, your heart had to be weighed against the feather of this goddess of truth.
Ma'at
This hidden desert valley is where later pharaohs were buried in secret caves instead of pyramids.
Valley of the Kings
This is the main reason Egyptians made mummies—to live forever in this place after death.
Afterlife
This is who you would get to see and live with forever once you made it safely into the Egyptian paradise.
Family or loved ones