Mummification Video

Today in class we watched two short videos. One was on the mummification process and the other was a "Crash Course" about Ancient Egypt.

• Mummification Video
• Mummy of Herakleides that died when he was 20 in the first century A.D
• Egyptians used a method to preserve the body for its use in the afterlife.
• First all of the organs were removed from the body, sometime leaving the heart.
• Then the body is covered in a salt solution for 40 days making sure that all of the moisture is drained from the body. 
• The body was coated with perfumed oils and resigns resulting in a water resistant body.
• The more resign was put onto the body acting as glue for the first layer of linen.
• Then the mummy was put on a wooden board and more resign and linen covered the body connecting the board to the mummy.
• "Religious" pouch was placed on the mummy's chest
• A mummified bird was then placed on the abdomen
• Then another layer of resign or glue coated the mummy
• Long horizontal stripes of linen were placed, as a head of the pharaoh was placed over the mummy's head.
• Then a large linen cloth was wrapped around the body
• Painted red which is rare and throughout history was only done to this mummy
• Egyptian symbols of protection and rebirth were painted on the mummy. 
• Then his name was written in Greek at the feet.