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Aim: How does mummification reflect social hierarchy?

Aim: How does mummification reflect social hierarchy?. Reddington Social Studies 6. Burial Practices . Egyptians believed body had to be prepared for afterlife before in can be placed in a tomb. The body had to be preserved to keep from decaying.

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Aim: How does mummification reflect social hierarchy?

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  1. Aim: How does mummification reflect social hierarchy? Reddington Social Studies 6

  2. Burial Practices • Egyptians believed body had to be prepared for afterlife before in can be placed in a tomb. • The body had to be preserved to keep from decaying. • Embalming: method that kept bodies from decaying • Bodies preserved as mummies (specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth). • Embalmers cut open the body and removed organs • Dried the body…natron • Applied special oils to body • Wrapped body • Stored organs in special jars….did not remove the heart

  3. Burial Practices Only the God Anubis was allowed to perform the first steps in creating a mummy.

  4. After the mummy was wrapped it was placed in a coffin (sarcophagus). • Only royalty could afford to have mummies made. • Social hierarchy?

  5. VIDEO • KA & RA THE PYRAMIDS & IMMORTALITY

  6. Your Turn!!!!  • 1) How did the Egyptians view the afterlife? • 2) How was the “ka” different from the body? • 3) What methods did the Egyptians use to bury their dead? • 4) How were burial practices different among Egypt’s social classes?

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