Post on 23-Jun-2015
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MummiesBy Nicholas 4C
Who were Mummies?
Mummified body.
Kept after death.
Can be a person or Animal.
Mummification
They took brain out and left heart.
Specialized workers put organs in canopic jars.
Wrapped in cloth.
Wrapped to conserve body
Funerals
Used to celebrate.
Buried or put in temples.
Curses
Tutankhamen’s curse.
Howard Carter died from curse in 1921.
Biggest curse Tutankhamen’s.
Died from touching him.
Died 6 months later.
Fun facts
Heart was center of smartness.
Had celebrations.
Took out brain from there nostril.
Connections to the past
Wrap to Unwrap.
Tomb to graveyard.
Mummification in 3000bc not big deal now a big deal.
Reference
Giardino Dei Saperi
www.Woodlandsjunior.com