In 1992, an archaeologist named Howard Carter had been digging mausoleums in Egypt for 15 years, although during this time she successfully found many large pharaonic tombs.
But without exception, they have all been stolen to the same extent, and many precious cultural relics have long disappeared. With no return in sight, Carter and his team were about to abandon the excavation of the mausoleum. But at this time, a small accident occurred, and a member of the archaeological team fell from a high place to a wooden floor, and then the team member suddenly found that there was a hollow under the wooden floor. So, they carefully opened the wooden floor, a room of funerary goods, the slightest bit of untouched were placed there, this mausoleum has not been robbed of the tomb, of course, this is not the most important. Exciting was the discovery of a major in the coffin next to him. Ten kilograms of gold masks, the complete royal mummy, the owner of this mausoleum is also famous for this excavation.
The mummy is Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun was a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty during the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. Pharaoh means emperor or monarch, and Tutankhamun is one of the least influential pharaohs in the entire history of ancient Egypt. It began to govern in 1340 BC, when he was only nine years old, because the royal family of ancient Egypt was married by close relatives, so Tutankhamun was frail and sick from an early age, and at the age of 19, Kamun died suddenly, according to the burial process of ancient Egypt, the pharaoh needed to be mummified within 70 days, and then officially placed in the mausoleum on the 70th day, but after Tutankhamun's death, his body was sent to a place on the west bank of the Nile dedicated to purifying the body, and the location of this place is the location of the sun god. It represents death and the afterlife, and Tutankhamun will be mummified here.
The first part of mummification is to wash away the filth from the nile or wine. The most important step in mummification is followed, "dissecting" When Tutankhamun's body is cleaned up, the priest will take a hook-shaped instrument from his nasal cavity and insert it into the brain, and then he will stir the inside of the brain into a liquid and pour it out of the brain in a circle to achieve the role of cleaning the mind.
The ancient Egyptians did this because they believed that human thinking and wisdom came from the heart, so the brain was useless. Preparations for the abdominal cavity were just after being cleaned, and the priest would make an incision in the left side of the abdominal cavity and then take out all the organs except the heart. The organs would be put into jars, and then they would be buried with Tutankhamun. The rest of the heart remains in the body for reincarnation. After the work ahead is done, it is time to move on to the next step, dehydration.
In order to ensure that Tutankhamun's body has a relatively full state. The priest would first put strips of linen inside the abdominal cavity as a support, and then they would fill Tutankhamun's cranial cavity and abdominal cavity with carbonates, and then completely cover her body with carbonates. The purpose of this is to use carbonates to achieve the effect of absorbing water, which usually takes 40 days, after which Tutankhamun's remains will appear brown and dry. Here, the mummy making is not over. The next step is beauty.
The priest will first clean up the carbonate inside the body, and then gently wipe the body with a mixture of water spices and wine. The mummies thus produced emit a faint fragrance. In order to make Tutankhamun's body look more realistic, they would fill the sunken parts of the body with sackcloth strips and branches, and then massage Tutankhamun's body with resin, and finally he would magically appear in a full and shiny state. Next, it's the last part of the mummy making. Relatively speaking, it is easier to understand that people will wrap the body in a circle with linen. In this process, some amulets will be placed in it, and the resin will be applied to the body again, and the role of the amulet is to bless Tutankhamun's soul to be successfully displayed, and the role of the resin is to keep his body in good condition. When Tutankhamun's body was wrapped. The priest would put on the famous golden mask for her. In this way, a royal mummy of extremely high specifications is even finished.
Next, there is the grand burial ceremony. Tutankhamun is first placed in a pure gold humanoid coffin. Then the outside of this humanoid coffin will be covered with three more layers of humanoid coffins. A four-story humanoid coffin is placed in another square coffin with a total of four layers. So Tutankhamun's coffin has eight floors. Finally, the various funerary items for all kinds of food and drink are arranged. The full 70 days of work are completely over.
Speaking of which, I don't know if you have any questions, why were the ancient Egyptians so keen on making mummies? In fact, this has a lot to do with the local religious culture. Ancient people actually felt that death was not the end but the beginning of a new life of reincarnation. Therefore, making an immortal mummy is very important during the turning process. Rich pharaohs and nobles make such luxurious mummies, ordinary people can make cheap versions of mummies, and some poor people will throw the dead directly into the dry desert. This can also play a role in preserving the body.
To add a little information, the reason why Tutankhamun's mausoleum is so small and so secretive is that he died suddenly at a young age, and people simply did not have time to build a mausoleum for him. And that famous gold mask wasn't made specifically for him either. So Tutankhamun is a typical posthumous fame.
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