How is a millennia-old mummy made? Why did the ancient Egyptians mummify corpses?
Is it rumored that mummies have certain medicinal properties? Is this true?
I'm an old tree today we're going to talk about "mummies"
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > the earliest mummies to be made</h1>
Mummies have been found in various countries around the world, the oldest mummy to date is the neo-croy mummy, and archaeological research has found that the neo-Croque people living in the Atacama Desert in Chile have been mummifying mummies as early as 7,000 years ago.
This is thousands of years earlier than the production of Egyptian mummies, and unlike the Egyptian mummies, the new Cro mummies rely on the high temperature and drying in the desert, using the natural environment to dehydrate the corpses into mummies, and the new Cro mummies buried under the desert for a long time can still retain their original hair and clothing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > the reason why ancient Egypt made "mummies"</h1>
In ancient Egypt, whether it was a noble pharaoh or a lowly poor man, he would be mummified when he died!
Because the ancient Egyptians believed that man is composed of a soul and a body, the soul does not die after death, even if the body is needed to live in another world, so as long as the body exists, the soul can be reincarnated.
But for the human body, the cells that survive can always repair themselves, and enzymes will break down the metabolized tissue, but what happens to the body's cells after death?
Dead cells will no longer repair themselves, but enzymes can still break down, so to preserve the body for a long time, you must obtain these enzymes before the body decays.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" >how did the ancient Egyptians make mummies that would not decay for thousands of years? </h1>
It was a young mummy whose body was about 20 years old when he died.
How to make this mummy?
The first step: the craftsmen will wash the body, then insert the long nails through the nostrils of the deceased, crush the brain tissue to let it flow out of the nostrils, and then some drugs and spices will be stuffed into the skull to prevent the inside of the brain from decaying further.
Step 2: The craftsmen will take out all the organs of the deceased, except the heart, because the ancient Egyptians believed that the heart could guide the deceased to the path to the afterlife, and the removed internal organs would be cleaned and put into four jars containing soda.
This kind of jar for internal organs was called the Canope jar in ancient Egypt.
The head on the jar represents the four sons of the god Horus, the baboon head god named Hubby, whose jar contains the liver, the wolf-headed god Domtefer, whose jar contains the stomach, the human head god Amsett, whose jar contains the liver, and the eagle-headed god Kebersenov, whose jar contains intestines.
The alkali inside the jar, just like other salts, the alkali can be sterilized and can also make the natural digestive enzymes inactive, for antiseptic, more suitable, in fact, the main ingredient of the alkali is soda ash and baking soda, the mixture of these two alkaline salts the bactericidal effect is extremely obvious, and the alkaline salt can also convert the fat film into a hard bubble-like substance, thereby maintaining the original shape of the corpse.
After cleaning the internal organs, the craftsmen will completely dehydrate the body, first filling the abdomen of the deceased with cloth-wrapped foam or some other filling substance!
The body is then completely covered with a large amount of alkali, and this closure time takes forty days to completely dehydrate the body, and the dehydrated corpse emits a foul odor, so the craftsmen will carry out the fourth step of mummification: beauty and plastic surgery.
Coating the corpse with aromatic oils and resins, isolating the smell from the surface, and stuffing spices and medicines into the abdomen of the deceased is the most important step in mummification, using thick resin to stick to the strips of linen cloth wrapped around the corpse.
Archaeologists have done statistics, a mummy to make the use of linen strips, up to 845 square meters, can completely cover three tennis courts, the step of wrapping the mummy requires special techniques, the whole process needs to last 15 days.
After the mummy is wrapped, the craftsmen will place the mysterious small bag prepared in advance on the mummy's chest, which is usually placed with religious objects, and some mummies will place a heron mummy on the abdomen.
The mummy of the vermilion was considered by the ancient Egyptians to be a messenger of correspondence with the gods, and then the craftsmen would fix the mummy with long linen strips, place a wooden board with a portrait of the deceased on the mummy's face, and finally wrap the mummy in its entirety with a complete linen cloth.
The mummy is painted with color and symbolizes rebirth, and the mummy's name is written on the feet of the mummy, so that the complete mummy is finally made after 70 days!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > the little secret of "mummy"</h1>
The old tree is telling you a little secret about the mummy, which was once sold as a medicine in medieval Europe, when people would boil the mummy into an ointment to treat bruises and stomach pains, as well as some strange and difficult diseases.
As for the therapeutic effect of mummy ointment, there is no way to verify this!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > what is the use of archaeologists studying mummies? </h1>
Modern scientists, based on studies of mummies, have found that the air quality in ancient Egypt was poor, possibly caused by a fire in the baking room.
After dissecting the mummies, the scientists also found that patients with cardiovascular disease and tuberculosis were also common in ancient Egypt.
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