Materials
Body Parts
Vocabulary
Process
Hodge Podge
100
What was used to wrap the body with linen?
Resin
100
What is the largest internal organ?
The Liver
100
An Egyptian word for a dead person's life created at birth and released by death
Ka
100
Dr Bob Brier said something about a whisk in his video. What was he talking about?
He was talking about how they used the iron hook as a hook to liquefy the brain.
100
An oval circle with a name written on it, rather like a name plate
Cartouche
200
What was used to clean the bodies cavities?
Palm Wine
200
Where was Henna put on the body?
The palms of the hands, The soles of the feet, hair, Fingers, and Toe nails
200
The spirit that inhabits the body during one's life and leaves the body after death
Ba
200
During the process of mummification, what did the slitter do after he made the incision?
He ran because they threw pebbles at him.
200
The valley where pharaohs and nobles from the New Kingdom were buried. The valley contained about 120 chambers
Valley of the Kings
300
What was beeswax used for?
To cover the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and the embalming incision.
300
What is the largest organ of the body as a whole?
The skin
300
A stone coffin, in which a mummy rests
Sarcophagus
300
In mummification what do some books say about how long you should leave the cadaver to dehydrate.
They say that the body should be left for 35 days.
300
Funerary text used from the beginning of the New Kingdom to around 50 BCE
The Book of the Dead
400
What was stored in the abdomen?
(Dried) Lichen
400
In the myth story. What was it that Seth did to Osiris’s body parts?
Seth took Osiris and ripped off all his limbs and scattered them around Egypt.
400
To dry out
Dehydrate
400
What did the Egyptians do to the body after it was completely dehydrated?
They rubbed perfumed oils on the body.
400
To treat a dead body so as to preserve it as with chemicals, medicine, or spices
Embalm
500
What was sometimes placed over the eyes of the dead, and have also been placed in the pelvis, in the thorax, and in the external ears.
Onions
500
What acts like a sack of blood in your body?
The spleen
500
Someone who has died
Deceased
500
During this process their is one organ that they leave in the body sometimes. What is it?
The Heart
500
The symbol of life
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