When we’re born the last thing on anyone’s mind is death. All anyone can really ask for is a happy, healthy baby and for the infant to live a long prosperous life. Unfortunately, as you take your first breath the countdown to death starts. Today we don’t really start thinking about death until we’ve somehow experienced it for ourselves or we start getting older. Some of us questions what happens to us when we die, where do we go, does it hurt, will I ever see my loved ones again, will I be with God? Although we don’t have answers to these questions, we can look at past cultures to help open our minds to the possibilities. Today when we die we don’t really plan it out or start preparing from months or years. Due to the fact that we don’t know …show more content…
Some may look at it and pay no mind but others would see the great value it has and its contributions to modern society. The mummy case of Djedmaatesankh isn’t just a coffin but a piece of art and comes with an untold story that we are now unlocking. This mummy case is just one of many artifacts from ancient Egypt that helps us better understand that time. From this one artifact, we looked at Egyptians gods, their belief in the afterlife, their customs, their rituals, their architecture, and their way of life. I started off this program with questions some may have about death although I don’t have the answers to them the mummy case of Djedmaatesankh gives you an insight into what the ancient Egyptians believed. Unfortunately, that’s all the time I have for today’s program. Join me next week when hope on a boat and sail north towards ancient Greece. Bibliography: 1. "Coffin And Mummy Of The Lady Djedmaatesankh – Works – Emuseum". 2017. Collections.Rom.On.Ca. http://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/195676/coffin-and-mummy-of-the-lady-djedmaatesankh?ctx=3736bc4f-add8-41d5-9738-b0a7516aef17&idx=2. 2. Dodson, Aidan, and Salima Ikram. 2008. The Tomb In Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. 3. Ikram, Salima, and Aidan Dodson. 1998. The Mummy In Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. 4. Robins, Gay. 1993. Women In Ancient Egypt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 5. Stiebing Jr, William H. 2009. Ancient Near Eastern History And Culture. 2nd ed. New York:
The Coffin of Tentkhonsu, observed at the National Museum of Natural History, was very eye drawing, its drawings on the outside and inside captive that mummies journey to rebirth. The readings of the artwork state that the mummy of Tehtkhonsu has never been completely identify. The coffin also dates back to 3,000 years.
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The discovery of King Tutankhamen tomb in 1922 has caught the attention of the world. The ancient Pharaoh's tomb is the only known find that is in its original state. Thieves have not looted the tomb (Sayre, 2011). According to Rompalske (2000), in Egypt's Valley of the Kings was King Tutankhamen tomb found. Nearby burial sites were long been looted by grave robbers or damaged by floodwaters. Somehow, the tomb remained undisturbed for 3,000 years. This undisturbed condition is significant because the world only knew of what contents should be in a Pharaoh's tomb from ancient writings. The world has never before seen the actual contents of a Pharaoh's tomb intact. Additionally, right at the time of the tomb discovery and before breaching the sealed door, an elderly British romantic novelist Marie Corelli, who specializes on the supernatural wrote of an ominous warning, a "Mummy's Curse", that anyone who intrudes into a sealed tomb will suffer or die (Marchant, 2013). The recipient of Corelli's warning is the renowned British Archeologist Howard Carter and his financier George Herbert, a very wealthy fifth Earl of Carnarvon. It is the intention of this report to identify the mystery surrounding the curse and to dispel or validate its accuracy.
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The Oriental Institute featured an exhibit focused on the development of ancient Middle East Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919–20 January 12 - August 29, 2010. And this was the exhibit I found most intriguing and most i...
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Perhaps the most notorious of burial practices originating in Egypt is that of mummification. Why such an extraordinary attempt was made to preserve cadavers may seem
The concept of human mortality and how it is dealt with is dependent upon one’s society or culture. For it is the society that has great impact on the individual’s beliefs. Hence, it is also possible for other cultures to influence the people of a different culture on such comprehensions. The primary and traditional way men and women have made dying a less depressing and disturbing idea is though religion. Various religions offer the comforting conception of death as a begining for another life or perhaps a continuation for the former.
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