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Mummies
By: Melissa Yang, Iliana Trujillo, Angel
Rubio, Kalil Fino-a-Laself, Rolando
Garcia, Matthew de Santiago, and
Jose Padilla
The Mummy king
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King Tutankhamen's mummy was on public display for the first time on
4/11/2007.
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Dr. Zahiri Hawass Chief of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that
mummy of the 3,000-year-old boy king would be displayed to the public
after it had been restored.
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Humidity and heat caused by tourists entering the tomb in Luxor would
harm the mummy.
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Tutankhamen's body is entirely wrapped in strips of white linen, except for
his face.
Mummy Maker
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/la
unch_gms_mummy_maker.shtml
• Enter the embalmer's workshop, where you are
to prepare the body of Ramose, officer to the
king, for burial.
• The chief embalmer, Kha, is watching your work
closely.
• You must do it perfectly - Kha's reputation rests
on your shoulders.
• Ramose's prospects of reaching paradise
depend entirely on you
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• Tutankhamun (sometimes spelled Tutankhamen) was Pharaoh of
the Eighteenth dynasty
• Tutankhamun (or "King Tut") is perhaps best known as the only
pharaoh whose tomb (KV62) was discovered intact
• The wealth of objects discovered in this
young king's tomb naturally lead to
speculation on what might have been
contained in the plundered tombs of far
more significant Pharaohs. However, he is
historically important as well.
Inside a Pyramid
Click the link to go inside an actual pyramid!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/expl
ore/khufutombkinglo.html
Pyramid
• The very first pyramid was built in 2700
B.C.
• The kings were called pharaohs.
• The Egyptians believed when they died
they would go to the after life, but first they
have to go through the underworld
Shabties
Shabties are servants that serve you in the
afterlife. The richer you were the more
shabtis you had. One mummy had more
than 300,000 shabties in their tomb.
Mummy facts
1.Mummification was not limited to
Egyptians. Greeks and Romans who
resided in Egypt were also mummified in
Egyptian fashion.
2.The process of mummification continued
in Egypt as late as the fifth century C.E.,
then slowly tapered off when Christianity
took hold.
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3.From 400 to 1400 C.E. there was a
common belief that mummies was a
potent medicine with curative powers. This
mummies was obtained by grinding up
actual mummies.
4. Many travelers who visited Egypt from
Europe in the 1600s and 1700s took
mummies home and displayed them as
centerpieces or in curio cabinets,
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• 5. The study of Egyptian antiquities, known as
Egyptology, became a popular academic
discipline in the 1800s. The event of
"unwrapping a mummy" became a most popular
attraction and draw to European museums.
• 6. In 1896, British archaeologist William Flinders
Petrie began using X-ray techniques to examine
mummies without unwrapping them.
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• 7. In the early 1970s, scientists began using
computed tomography, or CAT scans, to create
images of the insides of mummies. This aided
them in determining information about the
embalming and wrapping processes the
Egyptians used.
• 8. During the 1980s and 1990s, scientists
extracted DNA from mummies in hopes of
gathering information about ancient Egyptian
patterns of settlement and migration, as well as
information on diseases and genetic
characteristics.
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• 9. Recent approaches to studying mummies
involve the interdisciplinary cooperation of
Egyptologists, physicians, radiologists, physical
anthropologists, and specialists in ancient
languages.
• 10. Recent discoveries of mummies in the Sinai
Peninsula, the desert oases, and the eastern
delta of the Nile River are providing abundant
information about the regional mummification
styles.
King Tuts Treasure…
Stay tuned for more next week!!!