Ancient Egyptian Burial Chamber

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This ideal of a woman, as seen as basically a nurturer, is seen as the primary reason to why was one of the most respected and loved leader of Egypt, in reference to how many shrines and statues built in her honor. The physical size of the burial chambers was simply a function of approval by the general population. The process of actually preparing the pharoahs and rulers was debatably the most intricate portion of the burial chamber and tombs themselves. Before the final process they had perfected toward the later years of ancient Egypt, they originally would salt the body over a period of days for dying measure. Following, the process would then lead to the bodies being covered in the common type of clothes that the person would wear and …show more content…

It was in this date and age that “embalmers began to remove the internal organs” (Taylor 32). This process was discovered to be the most effective for the preservation of the mummies and keep maintenance to an all-time low of the burial chambers of the pharaohs and rulers. This new process involved the removal of organs and essentially anything besides basic muscle groups and skeletal structure. Instead of these organs and innards being disposed of as one would believe, they were placed in “canopic jars [which] were receptacles of stone or ceramic” (Haytler). These organs and such were stored inside the burial chamber because of the rooting belief whatever the rulers had in possession at the end of their life was theirs for the rest of eternity. However, this process of mummification was a very expensive process that, for the most part, only Egyptian royalty had enough to be able to afford. It is in this way that most common folk of ancient Egypt were buried in the middle of desert with hopes of a natural mummification process due to the hot sun and very dry climate. Although this was the primary method of burials, …show more content…

The pyramids show their level of complexity through the detail of the burial chamber, the cells underneath storing their wealth, the process of getting a corpse ready for the afterlife, to the rituals they performed for those who ruled over them. The insides of the pyramids alone have shown that the initial assumption that the pyramid as one singular room used simply as treasury to be false. The complexity inside of the burial chamber itself is a true testament to how skilled the people who were involved in the memorial of the deceased actually were. In many other primitive societies at this similar time period, there was nothing even comparable to the Egyptians in the slightest as to how the process of death in entirety was handled. One can speculate that the reason that this area was one of the few spots in this region of the world to advance so fast compared to others, is due to the fact that is a key point that allows control of trade to be regulated since it is such choke point speaking geographically. This increase of trade and simple just an I crease of pedestrian traffic allowed those who controlled the land to control tariffs id they wished to journey the easiest way to their destiny, through Egypt. This trade and tariff element allowed for the full development of such extensive building projects, the

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