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The ancient Egyptians developed a sophisticated method to preserve a dead body for the afterlife: mummification. First, the internal organs were removed and all moisture from the body was eliminated. Next, the body was wrapped with long strips of linen, and then covered with a large linen cloth. Follow the steps of the mummification process in this short animation about the Getty Museum's Romano-Egyptian mummy Herakleides.
The J. Paul Getty Museum:
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/video/399967
YouTube: https://youtu.be/-MQ5dL9cQX0
IMadeThisAccountJustToMakeThisComment
DO YOU THING, MICHEAL CERA GUY
WhySoDucky
And next we have Brendan Fraser running away from that thing 3 times cause reasons
mostlymycats
Why would a MUSEUM have a MUMMY in it!?
KrystenRittereyerollingatshitposters
Don't they also pop the tackle off and whack it in a jar nearby so he's got it handy for any sexy birds he meets in the afterlife?
jesusisherelookbusy
erischilde
Basically cured meat. Mmm..
yehudaisrael
Come on. You can't know it was developed in Egypt.
HommeDeFeu
If you think that's weird, Japanese monks would mummify themselves. Yes they would do it themselves.
theShitmyassholesays
Dylankx
Imagine screwing up the paint job and having to start over.
Greymalum
They also stuffed the body with spices and herbs, buried the body in sodium nitrate to remove moisture and blah, blah, blah, mummy.
Greymalum
However you had to pay well for the process, so depending on cash effected your results. Even their gods have a price.
Andromedine48
I expected a poorly shopped photo of Michael Cera
HonestbutSweetAboutIt
everypostepic
I hope when I die, someone has to rub oils on my dead dong.
jixathejinx
What was the significance of leaving the lungs in the body?
DizzyMartini
Wouldn't it have been natrum, not salt?
freekinfigetaboutit2
That is amazing.
landcfan
Gotta wonder how they came up with this. We're they eating jerky one day and suddenly went, "Hey I have an idea!"?
SanSamis
Stop promoting these unreasonable standards of corpse preservation.
jarsoffarts
Can I request this when I die?
AxFar
AmSpecialSnowflake
Didn't they also remove the heart, wrap it, then replace it? Not just leave it
BurrhusBacchus
That picture of Tom Selleck really got me
MrSpankalot
So. I tried this on my daughter but there was much more blood, screaming and resistance going on than advertised. 2/7 @sochneyde
everydamntime
Someone really needs to sign kapernick
SavageMaiden
I didn't see a properly animation of the dick in that corpse. Or was transgender?
TedTheMan
Do it.
SakuraMaple
And then Nicol Bolas unleashes his army of 4/4s on the unsuspecting citizens of Amonkhet.
HarryPotterReferenceProbably
Shout out to the 25 people who got that sic magic ref
youandmeandthedevilmakescovfefe
stopitcharlesgetoutofmyhead
In the British Museum, the mummies there are accompanied with x-rays of the contents of the wrappings. There's also a mummified body...
Wollip
Some of those mummies are coming to my museum next year! So excited to install the exhibition :D
stopitcharlesgetoutofmyhead
Nice one!
stopitcharlesgetoutofmyhead
which was by chance turned to leather by being buried in the desert under a rock. The body still has hair.
stopitcharlesgetoutofmyhead
Heres some pics I took:![]()
themooseisloose
Thanks for posting these...that's super cool!
IWantToLickYourButt
Can someone tell me why they removed the heart. I always thought they kept it do it could be weighed against the ma'at to enter the afterlif
IWantToLickYourButt
Did they not want him to enter?
joyousjes
The heart was removed but preserved in one of the canopic jars. Normally a dung beetle (sign of rebirth) amulet was put in the chest cavity.
t33kay
Why was Greek written on the feet? Grace and Egypt are pretty far apart
GdSvThQn
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2013/05/the-mummy-of-herakleides-roman-egypt-at-the-getty-villa/89661
GdSvThQn
This is believed to be shortly after Roman rule of Egypt, the Romans embrace a lot of egyptian culture.
SaintMaceToTheFace
History lesson! Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquered Egypt along with Persia and so on all the way to the Tigris in India....1/2
SaintMaceToTheFace
Along with most of the Middle East. His plan before he was injured in India was to head to Europe next. Anyway. After his death.....2/?
SaintMaceToTheFace
The empire split between his generals. One of them was Ptolemy. He t
SaintMaceToTheFace
He took control of Egypt and the surrounding area this started something called the Ptolemaic Dynasty. This was a line of Greek rulers 4/
SaintMaceToTheFace
Cleopatra (chick who slept with Julius Ceaser and Mark Antony and helped Antony in the roman civil war) was a descendent of Ptolemy