Ancient Egypt

Embalment - Sand Mummies

• hot desert sands can preserve a body by dehydrating it
• earliest mummies date from around 3200BC
• dead person was placed in a simple grave that was little more than a shallow oval dug in the desert sand and was then covered in sand

Body Cast

• over 2000 ancient Romans died in AD79 when the town of Pompeii was engulfed by a huge eruption of Mount Vesuvius
• volcanic ash set around their bodies like wet cement
• over years, the bodies decayed and the ash turned to rock

Canopic Jars

• Qebehseneuf - falcon, intestines
• Imetsy - human, liver
• Hapy - baboon, lungs
• Duamutef - jackal, stomach

Supernatural

• Sekhmet - godess of war and epidemic
• people thought they were ill because the goddess made…