Egypt

Title: Egypt
Category: Society & Culture / Geography | Words: 376 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

Egypt

The average amount of time it took to embalm a dead person was about 70 days. As soon as someone died their body was taken to an embalming workshop. There specialists washed the body and shaved the body of its hair, only leaving the facial hair and hair on the hear. One person made a cut on the left side of the abdomen and then ran out of the building since everyone else would yell and …showed first 75 words of 376 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 376 total…also dried out the four organs and placed each one in its own canopic jar. Each jar had a lid sculpted to look like a god that they thought protected that organ. After the Embalming was completed the mummy was put into a coffin. Until about 2000 BC, they were most often wooden boxes. After this date, though, the coffin started to look like humans and were made in sets so that one sat inside anothe

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