Informative Speech On Mummies

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Mummies, mummies, mummies, there all outside of a mummy store that looks like a butcher shop. Well today I am gonna be telling you some dirty jobs that had to be done when you wanted to go to the afterlife (mummification.) You had to get your coffin and get organs out of you. Well to keep the ball rolling stay tuned for more. First of all, this was back in the 2,000 B.C which was very very long ago.When you wanted to go to the afterlife you didn’t want to go smelling or looking like a dead corpse. What they would do was wrap your body up but before that you would like a little make up on you.If you were rich (royal treatment) you would get gold all around you and if you were like the bomb.com you would get your own coffin that …show more content…

The Egypt people believe that all the wet gooey stuff that keeps us ticking. They figured if you scooped out those rotting hearts and lungs also livers, the body would stay preserved. They were right too. Could you believe that. Well if you wanted to go into the afterlife all you had to was just a good slash on the left side of the dead persons abdomen, reach in and pull. The important organs were each put in their little own pots called “Canopic jars.”They were the statue of a god,they were the ones who would protect the body parts. Then the insides of the body were rinsed with wine. That sounds crazy…..like wow. Now the brain part would have to come you would have to use a long wire with a little spoon to get the gray stuff out. Then you would stick it through the nose and get higher and higher until you reached the top. After words you would scoop it out little by little. They didn’t think it was important so what they would do was toss it out the back then let the dogs (strays) eat it up. Now they would leave the heart because the Egyptians believed that when you go to the afterlife they would weigh your heart on a scale 1-10. This was against a feather to see if you were a light heart or a heavy heart. The next step would have to take 70 days. They would cover the body with natron and let it sit there for 2 and a half months. Also it is like a salt but with different chemical composition. This salt would absorb the body. After that the body was painted with a varnish like substance. Then, a mixture of oil wax and more natron was rubbed in the skin. The inside was filled with sand, pieces of cloth, even saw dust. Then it was time were you got the body wrapped witch I told you in the last part. Well thats all there is too it. In conclusion, When you want to go to the afterlife it takes a lot of steps. They are getting your coffin and get organs out of you. Well maybe next time on

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