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Mummification Video Questions
The hot, desert environment
absorbed water in the body that flesh eating bacteria needed to
live.
1.)
How did Egypt’s environment help preserve bodies?
2.)
Why did the Egyptians preserve their bodies? The
3.)
According to the Greek historian, Herodotus, how did the Egyptians mummify the body?
Egyptians believed that in
order to get to the afterlife, a person would need their body intact
from this life.
a.) First
the brain is removed through the nose.
b.)A
cut is made on the person’s side and the internal organs
are removed.
c.)The
body is covered in natron for 70 days.
d.) The
body is then wrapped in fine linen cloth.
e.)The
body is then covered in gum (tree sap).
f.) The
completed mummy is then placed in a wood or stone
sarcophagus.
4.)
How has modern day science proven the effectiveness of Egyptian mummification? Doctors
in Maryland mummified a modern human body, and 6 years later, there
was no signs of decay.
5.)
Why did mummification fail into decline? The
teaching of Christianity said that
the soul was the only part that went on to the afterlife, the body was
not needed and should decay naturally.
6.)
Create a graphic organizer and pictures for the six steps of mummification listed above: